Donna Haraway

Capitalism, Marketing, and the Insidious and Covert Co-optation of the Self Subtitle: A Manifesto for Avatars 1. Introducing Avatars AVATARA-Sanskrit.; ava-'down', tarati-'he goes, passes beyond' literally, 'a descent', a conception described in the Bhagavad gita, 4th Teaching, 1-8 where Krishna confides: "when goodness grows weak, when evil increases, I make myself a body." (OED) Originally referring to the incarnation of Hindu deities, avatars in the computing realms have come

Gender identities breaks into two categories, “femininity” and “masculinity”. According to Stanford it says femininity and masculinity describe socio- cultural categories in everyday language; these terms are used differently in biology. Femininities and masculinities are plural and dynamic; they change with culture and with individuals. What does it mean to be a feminine? Some young females are struggling to define what it means to be a feminist. They think that it means being weak,

common current controversial topics such as gender and racial equality and easily tie it into the main theme of the book. For example: “…A 1912 definition of biological individuality as the quality of being ‘rendered non-functional if cut in half,’ Donna Haraway observes that this requirement of indivisibility is problematic for…women… Their personal, bounded individuality is compromised by their bodies’ troubling talent for making other bodies… One of our functions, as women, is to be divided” (125-126)

Technological Advancement is Natural As we enter the twenty-first century, it is clear that many things about our method of interacting with our environment are different than in previous centuries, and that, in fact, the very philosophy of the man-nature interaction may change again. Some look forward to these changes. Others are fearful or condemnatory. In many cases, people implicitly or explicitly argue that certain technologies are unnatural. They claim that while certain technologies may

have the ability to truly break away from the female SF character stereotype without her body's enhancements. She is the more physically powerful because of them. Technically, she could be considered a cyborg in feminist and technological theorist Donna Haraway's view because of these enhancements: "Chiba. Yeah. See, Molly's been to Chiba, too." And she showed me her hands, fingers slightly spread. Her fingers were slender, tapered, very white against the polished burgundy nails. Ten blades snicked

Haraway seeks to create an “ironic political myth,” which would combine both post-modernism and socialist feminism. The central point of her myth would be a “cyborg,” which is a metaphor for new technologies as well as the post-modernist play of identity. The cyborgs blur boundaries between the status of men and women, human and machine, and individual and community. Haraway believes that many dualisms have been persistent in our western

It is difficult to pigeonhole Wangechi Mutu into a specific artistic discipline within the visual arts. Collage, painting, installation, sculpture and video-art are disciplines that shape and define both her work, who she is and where she is in the world. Born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1972, Mutu studied in the United Kingdom and has lived in Brooklyn, New York for two decades. There she studied Art at the Cooper Union College in New York: "Admitting for yourself and your parents that you want to go to

A Review of Sandra Harding’s Science and Social Inequality In Science and Social Inequality, Sandra Harding argues that both the philosophy and practices of modern Western science ultimately function to advance global social inequalities. Drawing on feminist, postcolonialist, multicultural, and antiracist critiques of Western science, Harding supports this argument and exposes the ways in which modern Western science engenders social injustices particularly within the contexts of militarism, environmental

Hassrad and Cox (2013) sought to create a model that modernizes and adapts the Burrell and Morgan’s model to unpack the meta-theoretical assumptions of the paradigm not accounted for – post-structuralism, and more broadly, post modernism. This section will briefly discuss each of Burrell and Morgan’s original criteria in relation to the literature on third-order analysis to justify the use of this modification. Hassard and Cox see three main approaches to organizational theorizing, structural, anti-structural

The concepts of cyborgs and robots in modern mass culture has been growing and, as the technologies available improve on a daily basis, the fictional characters and machines in science fiction stories are becoming gradually more real. The topic of robots has become extremely popular in modern days starting from the post war era. Isaac Asimov, considered to be one of the most influential people in this field, decided to define, in his book “I, Robot” (Asimov, 1950) the boundaries of a robot by formulating