ENGB76H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway
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The matrix: cinema makes us all cyborgs: analysis that goes beyond the narrative, what you see in the cinematography, changes and forms, cinematic form, summary vs. analysis. The cyborg is condensed image of both imagination and material reality. The two joined centres structuring any possibly of historical transformation: visible vs. invisible, the modern subject joins all hollywood genres by way of suture. Compare ad contrast the form and function of the monster body (steve cohen) and cyborg body (donna haraway: between human and animal. In order for animals to be useful for the human rce they need to be manipulated into a machine. Virtual bug glitch in the program to trace him. Cypher wants to eat other animals, taste steak wants to become what he thinks is better. Choice of wanting to be an animal or pretend you"re a master of other animals. World destroyed by morpheus"s account: between animal-human (organism) and machine.
