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About: Unit 11: Cyborg Culture--Feminism and the Digital

The class will read Donna Haraway’s lively “Cyborg Manifesto” and look at the art of Lynn Hershmann, Cao Fei and Hito Steryl. Can technology liberate women? Why does Haraway prefer to be a cyborg to a goddess?

Reading: Unit 11

Videos by Hito Steryl, Cao Fei and Lynn Hershmann

Haraway, Cyborg Manifesto
Haraway, Donna J. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century. University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Maria Fernandez, Cyberfeminism, Racism, Embodiment
p. 39-44 in Fernandez, Maria, Faith Wilding, and Michelle Wright. Domain Errors!: Cyberfeminist Practices. New York: Autonomedia, 2003.

Videos: Unit 10

Powerpoint: Unit 10

ART 3089 PPT UNIT 11
Hershman Leeson, Lynn. Roberta Construction Chart #2. 1975. Iris print, 15 1/2 × 20 1/4 in; 39.4 × 51.4 cm. https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/artwork/36259/Lynn-Hershman-Leeson-Roberta-Construction-Chart-2.