Cyborg and Docile bodies::::::G11
(Maziar, Ron, Yung-Hoon, Ramy)
Haraway introduces us the idea of the Cyborg, a cybernetic hybrid which is of the present and of the future (mostly a fact of present rather than future as she illustrates the three borders: animal and human, human and machine, physical and the non-physical). It doesn’t have a Freudian origin as it doesn’t depend on human reproduction and it is outside gender, it doesn’t wait to be saved by its father, neither does it seek completeness by searching for a mate. And we are becoming cyborgs. “The machine is not an 'it' to be animated, worshipped, and dominated”Haraway argues “The machine is us, our processes, an aspect of our embodiment”.
One of the major facts that Haraway points out is the “new industrial revolution” which results in the feminization of the laborious industry. According to the United Nations’ HDR (Human Development Reports) 69% of the labor forces are provided by women ages 15 and above and in areas like Africa, Scandinavia, or North America this rate exceeds 80%*. Today the women as a labor force have become what Foucault calls the docile body as they are subjected, used, transformed and improved. Women have become he focal subject of the advertisement and media; they are the main labors of the porn industry. Considering economy, poverty is feminized as well as the labor.
For Haraway, cyborg is both constructive and destructive. It builds as it destroys “machines, identities, ethnicities, categories, relationships”. But she would still “rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”
*http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/data/indicators.cfm?x=255&y=2&z=1
Haraway introduces us the idea of the Cyborg, a cybernetic hybrid which is of the present and of the future (mostly a fact of present rather than future as she illustrates the three borders: animal and human, human and machine, physical and the non-physical). It doesn’t have a Freudian origin as it doesn’t depend on human reproduction and it is outside gender, it doesn’t wait to be saved by its father, neither does it seek completeness by searching for a mate. And we are becoming cyborgs. “The machine is not an 'it' to be animated, worshipped, and dominated”Haraway argues “The machine is us, our processes, an aspect of our embodiment”.
One of the major facts that Haraway points out is the “new industrial revolution” which results in the feminization of the laborious industry. According to the United Nations’ HDR (Human Development Reports) 69% of the labor forces are provided by women ages 15 and above and in areas like Africa, Scandinavia, or North America this rate exceeds 80%*. Today the women as a labor force have become what Foucault calls the docile body as they are subjected, used, transformed and improved. Women have become he focal subject of the advertisement and media; they are the main labors of the porn industry. Considering economy, poverty is feminized as well as the labor.
For Haraway, cyborg is both constructive and destructive. It builds as it destroys “machines, identities, ethnicities, categories, relationships”. But she would still “rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”
*http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/data/indicators.cfm?x=255&y=2&z=1
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