You're Already a Sexual Cyborg

When Donna Haraway wrote A Cyborg Manifesto in 1985, I imagine there was excitement to the concept. To be a cyborg was to be liberated from the boundaries that separate human from nature, human from animal, human from machine. There’s a lot more to it — Haraway has said she feels that “very few people are taking what I consider all of its parts” in their embrace of her essay. I, too, will not be taking all of its parts. Her essay is less about the intertwining of human and machine as it is a work of feminist theory, but nevertheless the two aren’t separate. We can imagine, particularly from the viewpoint of 1985, a future in which the intertwining of human and machine led to further feminist emancipation. I’m not sure if in 2025 that viewpoint remains the same.