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is a coupling between an organism and machine such that it offers the possibility of criticizing and reconstructing that which is assumed to be natural and inevitable, thus permitting us to reconsider our relationship with the worlds of the natural and the mechanical.

A postmodern analysis suggests that a brain-dead patient should be thought of as a cyborg, a 'coupling between organism and machine, each conceived of as coded devices' (Haraway 1990:196). The boundary transgressions exhibited by cyborgs present 'dangerous possibilites' because their development is related to an authoritarian need for control and for universal domination. On the other hand, cyborgs also offer a possibility of criticizing and reconstruucting that which is assumed to be natural and inevitable, and thus they permit us to reconsider our relationship with thte worlds of the natural and the mechanical (Haraway 1990:196 in Lock 1996:578).

is a creature in a post-gender world. It has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity.

a creature in a post-gender world... it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity'.[2]

is a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.

a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction' (CM, 149).

is a hybrid of machine and organism, of social reality as well as of fiction.

a hybrid of machine and organism, of social reality as well as of fiction' (haraway)

is a hybrid of machine and organism, organic and mechanic, thus rendering non-essential crusty binaries like nature/culture, fact/value, pure/contaminated, inorganic/organic, and real/artificial. The cyborg representative of our technoscientific moment.

for Haraway, cyborgs are cybernetic organisms systems that embrace living and technological components. Since the cyborg is always and inseparably organic and machinic, the cyborg displaces, and renders nonessential, crusty Western binaries like nature/culture, fact/value, pure/contaminated, inorganic/organic, and real/artificial. These distinctions, while useful in the past, do not work well in the current technoscience moment which effectively blurs them all

is resolutely committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity.

The cyborg is resolutely committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity.' (haraway)

is responsible for a boundary breakdown between human and animal, creature and machine, real creature and fictional creature.

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