In the “Cyborg Manifesto”, Donna Haraway discusses the concept of gender brought by cyborgization. Throughout its evolution, the human race has blurred the distinction between the human, the animal and the machine. She demonstrates that nowadays machines have made unclear the border between artificial and natural elements and that it has cause confusion with the concept of physicality. She explains that societal dualisms are becoming a big problem with machine, and for sure it is, since their are not as comprehensive as humans are. There are many distinctions that the machine can learn, but its processing of the information is based on a specific pattern and barely from its own judgement. Therefore, as Haraway argues, this will cause many social controversies, especially in a Western patriarchal raised community with groups such as the feminism. In bref, what Haraway wants is a world without gender, where cyborgs would all be equally judge and where they could create their own identity.
Monday, April 1, 2019
Week 12 : Confused Coffee Beans - Foucault and Haraway
In “Panopticism”, Michel Foucault refers to Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, an idea of power with visibility using architecture. This process would maximise the power over the population to increase productivity, economy and education. Foucault describes what he calls discipline and relates two images of this theory: the discipline blockade, an enclosed space, and discipline mechanism, a machine to operate power for efficiently. As he mentions, this technique is already being used with the capitalist regime, where everything is control with the power of money. Indeed, Foucault argues that a more developed society could lead for better control and observation over the population, which is true. Just take the example of the television around 1975, only sophisticated community could afford them and due to their popularity, the government or else, could easily distributed any kind of message or information and the society was not even aware that they could be fooled through media.
In the “Cyborg Manifesto”, Donna Haraway discusses the concept of gender brought by cyborgization. Throughout its evolution, the human race has blurred the distinction between the human, the animal and the machine. She demonstrates that nowadays machines have made unclear the border between artificial and natural elements and that it has cause confusion with the concept of physicality. She explains that societal dualisms are becoming a big problem with machine, and for sure it is, since their are not as comprehensive as humans are. There are many distinctions that the machine can learn, but its processing of the information is based on a specific pattern and barely from its own judgement. Therefore, as Haraway argues, this will cause many social controversies, especially in a Western patriarchal raised community with groups such as the feminism. In bref, what Haraway wants is a world without gender, where cyborgs would all be equally judge and where they could create their own identity.
Dana Ryashy, Sol Paul, Xavier Champoux, Rose-Marie Dion
In the “Cyborg Manifesto”, Donna Haraway discusses the concept of gender brought by cyborgization. Throughout its evolution, the human race has blurred the distinction between the human, the animal and the machine. She demonstrates that nowadays machines have made unclear the border between artificial and natural elements and that it has cause confusion with the concept of physicality. She explains that societal dualisms are becoming a big problem with machine, and for sure it is, since their are not as comprehensive as humans are. There are many distinctions that the machine can learn, but its processing of the information is based on a specific pattern and barely from its own judgement. Therefore, as Haraway argues, this will cause many social controversies, especially in a Western patriarchal raised community with groups such as the feminism. In bref, what Haraway wants is a world without gender, where cyborgs would all be equally judge and where they could create their own identity.
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