Highlights moral dimensions between two antagonistic actors. EX. Good guy/Bad guy

This ties back to the Ex Machina example. More powerful in parts, separate from the female embodiment.

I wonder if this is a vibrator joke?

Having a female body means using it to make babies

A play on common fairytale (damsel in distress story) in which women are trapped in an antiquated and gendered role of someone in need of saving.

We control machines not the other way around, because they are part of us, not brought to life by us.

Reminds me of Frankenstein's monster. The machine isn't brought to life rather becomes part of us. I understand this in thinking about like prosthetic legs. You don't bring it to life once you start walking on it. It IS a part of you and the process of you walking.

Most likely considered a "sin" for women to step out of a maternal role, thus why using machines would be a sin.

I saw an essay that talks about this and discusses how cyborgs are more powerful in their parts. A great example they used was talking about Ex Machina and how Ava, a cyborg is more powerful when not in her fully female form. She is more powerful because she doesn't adhere to standards of male desire. By not fully identifying as cyborg or human, she retains more power.

This is a religious reference drawing back to the garden of Eden. It is said that Adam and Eve were created sinless in the Garden. This is saying cyborgs are not perfect, not sinless

Alison Kafer refers to this section on page 112 of "The Cyborg and the Crip."

She states that Haraway, "mentions “[u]nseparated twins and hermaphrodites,” other sites of disability, but only as the monsters of early modern France. The disabled body, then, is figured within the manifesto as the creature of futuristic fiction or the monstrous past; disabled bodies are, once again, cast as out of time. Disability may be a site of “complex hybridization,” and disabled bodies may exemplify the cyborg, but their cyborgization appears as a type apart from the rest of the cyborg politics discussed here."

I found this section of the Haraway interview particularly interesting. It is located on pg.15 when they are discussing Octavia Butler. One of the interviewers says, "Because Butler's characters interbreed and create new gene pools across not only race but species. In other words, cyborg subjectivity will be hybridized, mixed and plural..."

Haraway then goes on to say that she is "suspicious of the fact that in our accounts of both race and sex, each has to proceed one at a time, using a similar technology to do it."

She finishes the paragraph (now on pg 16) talking about race and the non-human status of african american children in the times of slavery.

"The person in captivity, however, did not even enjoy the status of being human. The mother passed on her status, not her name, to the child, not the father; and the status of the mother was not human. And it is precisely that historical and discursive situation which...positions black men and women outside the system of gender governed by the Oedipal story of incest and kinship"

On pg. 11 of the Haraway interview she says "biology is a logos, it is literally a gathering of knowledge..." I think this relates here. While in the interview she is talking about the sex/gender system. I think it relates in that she is trying to get across the idea that biology is not this 100% set in stone thing, but is shaped by our understanding of the world.

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who is katie king?

"Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that assumes that a society's technology determines the development of its social structure and cultural values"

A vanguard party is a political party at the fore of a mass-action political movement and of a revolution.

This sentence in general confuses me. I am not very familiar with Foucault, and having this early in the piece suggests that it is important. What is the significance?