
DONNA HARAWAY on Staying with the Trouble /131
For The Wild
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The History of the Cyborg
No one on the earth is untouched by what emerged from the mid-20th century and beyond that I called a kind of cyborg world. So it's ongoing, but doesn't remain the same. And people like myself try to open the box to drive in wedges to increase the degrees of freedom. But not out of some ridiculous fantasy of infinite possibility, but rather more in the spirit of the Marxist critical theorists who said the established order is not necessary. It is possible and indeed necessary to open up the imagination for a world which can yet be, but is not yet.
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