Apr 29, 2009

Presentation Outline by Chan Tsz Wai Crystal

Harvey O. (2005) Identity Politics and technological change: Two different models. TASA [The Australian Sociological Association] 2005 Conference Proceedings.
URL: http://www.tasa.org.au/conferencepapers05/papers%20(pdf)/humans_harvey.pdf


The cyborg:
- Human consequences of scientific and technological development
The posthuman:
- Changes on how we think about traditional categories of identity

Donna Haraway:
- Traditional political arguments based on‘the integrity of natural objects’ can no longer be sustained

Catherine MacKinnon:
- Men’s constitution and appropriation of women sexually
Donna Haraway:
- Feminism must develop a political framework

The cyborg:
- ‘Matter of fiction and lived experience’
- Political model
Donna Haraway:
- ‘By the late twentieth century… The cyborg is our ontology; it gives us our politics’

Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston:
- Posthuman: open ideological assumptions traditionally made about human identity

Conclusion:
- Connections between Haraway’s and Halberstam’s and Livingston’s arguments:
~ Ontology is the anchor for any discussion of human identity
- Their common beliefs:
~ Qualities we usually attribute to the human are no longer easily identifiable
- Differences:
~ The cyborg: political project based on reconfiguring alliances between different material objects
~ The posthuman: epistemological project, re-think of the nature of matter itself

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