Donna Harraway, Cyborg expert, explains:

"The cyborg appears in myth precisely where the boundary between human and animal is transgressed."

"The second leaky distinction is between human-animal (organism) and machine."

"So my cyborg myth is about transgressed boundaries ..."

"Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic."

"Writing is pre-eminently the technology of cyborgs, etched surfaces of the late twentieth century."

Cyborg imagery can help express two crucial arguments ... first, the production of a universal, totalizing theory is a major mistake that misses most of reality ... and second, taking responsibility for the social relations of science and technology means refusing an anti-science metaphysics, a demonology of technology..."

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