The only required source is attached “Haraway – Cyborg Manifesto” Other sources are ok but the paper must be primarly on this source.
Choose one of the following prompts:
- If we accept Donna Haraway’s argument, and we try to move from a humanist to a posthumanist perspective, does a hierarchy nevertheless continue, which still places humans at the top of the natural world? What specific arguments have posthumanists, such as Haraway, put forth in order to overcome this problem? Do they succeed at it? In what ways specifically? Why or why not? Use textual evidence to support your argument. You may use outside sources.
- How, if at all, does Donna Haraway’s concept of posthumanism help to expand upon theories of environmental justice, such as Ecofeminism and Queer Ecology? For example, Haraway argues that the concept of “female” is not an identity but rather a definition to be unified. Your argument should therefore address two main points:
(1) How does Haraway’s idea of being a “cyborg” provide a definition for this new, unified idea of “the female”?
(2) How might this new female-cyborg definition help to overcome current social justice problems, such as those that we discussed in the units on Ecofeminism and Queer Ecology? Use textual evidence to support your argument. You may use outside sources.