I began thinking about ways in which I could provide another reading of Ella Runciter in Philip K. Dick’s Ubik, and it came to me yesterday. I remembered Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” Unfortunately, I let my buddy Seth borrow a book with the essay in it. Luckily, it’s available online for everyone to read. It is very theoretical in parts, but that doesn’t mean that it’s unapproachable by the lay reader. I recommend it for anyone that considers him/herself a feminist, and is interested in cyborgs (real or imagined). You can read Haraway’s essay here. Find out more about her work (and see a picture of her and her dog) on her Wikipedia entry here.
