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Blasphemy for Cyborgs
Manage episode 342314705 series 3370031
Nietzsche said "God is dead"—now so is the Goddess. Through a reading of Donna Haraway's fabulous "Cyborg Manifesto", we delve into what it means to write, speak, and live knowing that there is no originary or objective meaning to draw from. We look at how blaspheming against systems of thought means to take them seriously, even as we confuse their boundaries and repurpose them for survival, and, most importantly, pleasure. Through Haraway's figure of the Cyborg we explore the leaky fusions opened up within these "illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism", embracing their monstrousness and contradictions while rejecting their cruel fathers as inessential. Corrupting the most deeply held essentialisms on our hard drives, the Cyborg does not attempt to flee back to an original innocence but to survive and thrive in the mess of it all—after all, isn't it only in the muck of the profane that the sacred emerges?
End notes:
A Cyborg Manifesto from Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna Haraway
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis
Get access to full bonus episodes, an exclusive RSS feed, and more by subscribing our Patreon!Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
31 episoder
Manage episode 342314705 series 3370031
Nietzsche said "God is dead"—now so is the Goddess. Through a reading of Donna Haraway's fabulous "Cyborg Manifesto", we delve into what it means to write, speak, and live knowing that there is no originary or objective meaning to draw from. We look at how blaspheming against systems of thought means to take them seriously, even as we confuse their boundaries and repurpose them for survival, and, most importantly, pleasure. Through Haraway's figure of the Cyborg we explore the leaky fusions opened up within these "illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism", embracing their monstrousness and contradictions while rejecting their cruel fathers as inessential. Corrupting the most deeply held essentialisms on our hard drives, the Cyborg does not attempt to flee back to an original innocence but to survive and thrive in the mess of it all—after all, isn't it only in the muck of the profane that the sacred emerges?
End notes:
A Cyborg Manifesto from Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna Haraway
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis
Get access to full bonus episodes, an exclusive RSS feed, and more by subscribing our Patreon!Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
31 episoder
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