Section “An ironic dream of a common language for women in the integrated circuit”: What are the three crucial boundary breakdowns that happened in the late 20th century, according to Haraway?

Read Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto”, This article, from my perspective, is probably the most difficult one you will have to read this semester. It’s also very provocative. You don’t have to agree at all with Haraway’s initial premises, nor to understand everything the author says. Move very slowly in your reading, and take notes to underline Haraway’s key- ideas. Then answer the three following questions, meant to help you rephrase, in your own words, crucial points made by this manifesto::

1. Section “An ironic dream of a common language for women in the integrated circuit”: What are the three crucial boundary breakdowns that happened in the late 20th century, according to Haraway? How do they contribute to what she calls “the cyborg myth” ?

2. Section “The informatics of domination”: How did communication technologies reshaped our bodies, in this past century? Pick a specific example given by Haraway, and develop it, in any direction you want to go..

3. Section “Cyborgs: a myth of political identity”: According to Haraway, how can the figure of the cyborg help us to redefine feminism in the 21st century?