April 17, 2024Open Access

‘Feminist Re-Visions Of The Cyborg : Theory And Praxis’

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Cyborgs, an intersection of technology and body, complicate traditional perspectives on identity and gender.
Key theorist Donna Haraway suggests that the cyborg blurs the lines between human and machine, reshaping our understanding of self.
Theoretical discussion engages with feminist critiques, exploring how cyborgs challenge established boundaries of identity and body politics in contemporary contexts. Cyborg theory calls for a reevaluation of notions of gender and identity, suggesting potential avenues for liberation through technology.

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Cyborgs are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. Our films, popular fiction and theoretical writings are enmeshed with it. This paper intends to highlight the feminist concept of 'Cyborg'. The term is a conflation of 'cybernetic organism', coined by research space scientist Manfred Clynes. Cyborgs appeared in science fiction stories decades earlier. A 'cyborg' can be anything from a human with a prosthesis to a robot with a thin veneer of skin, according to Donna Haraway, we are all cyborgs to some degree. Thus she postulates a cyborg ontology which takes as its premise the dissolution of traditional boundaries associated with body. This paper tries to foreground the feminist perspective of this cyborg

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Dr Binata Nongmaithem (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6ecd2b6db643587668102 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.53555/kuey.v30i4.2302

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