Feminist Technological Futures; Deleuze And Body/ Technology Assemblages  

Oleh:

Currier, Dianne

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Feminist Theory vol. 4 no. 3 (Dec. 2003), page 321–338.
Topik: Assemblage; Bodies And Technology; Cyborg; Deleuze and Guattari
Fulltext: 321.pdf (81.42KB)

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The figure of Donna Haraway’s cyborg continues to loom large over contemporary feminist engagements with questions of technology. Across a range of analytical projects ranging from cosmetic surgery to employment practices it has come to be one of the defining figurations through which the social and discursive construction of bodies in a technological age are theorized. Indeed, it has become a widely accepted and largely unquestioned orthodoxy of postmodern feminist thinking. Not only has the cyborg offered a theoretical framework for exploring the feminist possibilities of technologies, it has provided a focus for situating questions of technology and bodies into broader feminist theoretical considerations of the structures of knowledge, particularly those of binary oppositions and the logic of identity. While a productive and influential intervention into feminist theorizing, the cyborg is not without limitations. One of these is pointed out by Kirby (1997) as a failure to break convincingly with the logic of identity in the way Haraway theorizes the intersection of bodies and technologies in the fabrication of the cyborg. This article examines that criticism and then explores the possibilities which Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblage offers as a mean of thinking the meetings of bodies and technologies beyond binary oppositions.

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