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November 14, 2006
"Cyborg" is short for cybernetic organism, or what cyborg theorists call the melding of the organic and the mechanic.
Donna Haraway's paper entitled "A manifesto for cyborgs: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the 1980s" (1985) ushered in the academic discourse on cyborgs, which she understood as hybrid creatures who blur the boundaries between the various boundary projects of modernity, including human/machine, human/animal, male/female, and so on. For Haraway, the postmodern "self" is no longer characterized by a singular, unified identity, but an assortment of politicized and fractured cyborg "selves."
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