In the manifesto, Haraway argues that the cyborg—a fusion of animal and machine—trashes the big oppositions between nature and culture, self and world that run through so much of our thought. Why is this important? In conversation, when people describe something as natural, they're saying ...
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which will be crucial for the rest of our argument: Donna Haraway's feminist theory [5] and Andy Clark's cognitive-oriented approach [6]. 2.1. Haraway's Cyborg from Feminist Theory The untarnished fertility of Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto was recently shown by a paper interestingly exploring th...