Haraway: manifiesto ciborg

Good evening. This video is about Hardway's text, "Flavor Manifesto," and we've taken some parts of it, specifically where she presents this flavor, describing and giving us its main characteristics. When we talk about Flavor, we have to consider that it's a political myth. This myth brings together elements of feminism, socialism, and materialism. It's

not a myth of identification. We'll see in what sense and why it is n't a myth of identification. She tells us that it's a blasphemy, a blasphemy against morality, precisely because it's a political myth that opposes the dominant morality that has been and still dominates today. It's an irony, an irony because that's its

rhetorical strategy. In this irony, contradictions are brought together, things that have been considered incompatible are held together. This is Flavor, and Flavor itself is a cybernetic organism, a mixture of machine and organism. Yes, so it has emerged primarily in science fiction. There are a lot of films where different Flavors appear, which are

these mixtures of organisms with machines. So here she is grappling with this myth. Precisely so that we can imagine what is possible, that is to say, it is a construction so that consciousness can understand what is possible, and what is possible is precisely to blur, to break down the boundaries. We have already seen a series of these

boundaries: subject-object, the one and the many, man-woman. It is precisely there that we are going to situate the software, and we will see how it helps. The boundaries are actually an optical illusion; that is to say, believing in these boundaries is a deception, an optical illusion. And the software comes precisely to show us, in a way, through an