Cyborg manifesto

Music is a big part of my life. There is rarely a day I do not listen to it. Whether I am driving in my car or working out at the gym. I started really paying attention to music when I was younger and took dance classes. I took Jazz, Ballet, and Hip Hop. Each style of dance had dramatically different type of music. I always loved how with music there is so many different layers. One song might mean something to someone and then it could mean something completely different to someone else. When watching

It is difficult to pigeonhole Wangechi Mutu into a specific artistic discipline within the visual arts. Collage, painting, installation, sculpture and video-art are disciplines that shape and define both her work, who she is and where she is in the world. Born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1972, Mutu studied in the United Kingdom and has lived in Brooklyn, New York for two decades. There she studied Art at the Cooper Union College in New York: "Admitting for yourself and your parents that you want to go to

Another example of the role model gaming character would be the character Oracle. She is formerly known as Bat Girl in the earlier Batman games, but she made her appearance as Oracle in Batman Arkham Knight game. Her real name was Barbara Gordon, daughter of Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon. Earlier, as a Batgirl, she used to fight against crime with his fighting ability. But In the game when Joker (The main antagonist of Batman) shot Barbara and then torture her in front of her father

power, and subjectivity. Pierre Bourdieu, also an icon in contemporary social theory, theorized about the interrelationship between structure and agency. Finally, Donna Haraway’s work in postmodern social theory, or more specifically her essay, A Cyborg Manifesto, will be analyzed in the following essay. To conclude, the works of Foucault, Bourdieu, and Haraway, are crucial to understanding and contextualizing how agency has decreased as a result of the increased consumption of post-modern technological

Black Mirror” viewers see technology play a significant role to how stories unveiled themselves. Some of the stories embark on such an advancement in technological simulation that the creations form damaging attributes and affect people lives in a harmful and dangerous way. For example, when comparing an episode of Black Mirror from season 4-episode 6 titled “Black Museum”, viewers are introduced to a character who owned a successful dark-themed Museum entirely dedicated to people who had been psychologically

What is the self in the digital age? One might say that their true online self is on Facebook, or MySpace, or maybe Instagram. The splintering of the self into multiple versions illustrates a desire to see what one can be online. Truly, new media and technology has allowed one to find their true inner self, whether that reflect their real self in real life or not. Yet, not everyone sees these disparate selves with optimism. Sherry Turkle and Natasha Schüll see the growth of new media and technology

Science Fiction has proven to be a difficult term to define, but has become one of the most popular genres of all time. We see science fiction in films, poetry, literature and in the imagination of every child. In the novel, A Very Short Introduction by David Seed, he discusses in six chapters the unconventional genre known as science fiction.  The In the Novel, A Very Short Story By David Seed, he  includes topics such as science and technology, space, aliens, utopias, gender, and its relation to

Japanese Animation and Identity In Orientalism, Edward Said claims that, “as much as the West itself, the Orient is an idea that has a history and a tradition of thought, imagery, and vocabulary that have given it reality and presence in and for the West” (5). The complex network of political, economical, academic, cultural, or geographical realities of the Orient called “Orientalism” is a way of coming to terms with the Orient, or to be less geographically specific, the Other. Although Said

As with Schiff, in, ‘Some Matching Strangeness’: Biology, Politics, and the Embrace of History in Octavia Butler’s Kindred by Benjamin Robertson there is a shift taking place in the scholarship on Kindred away from purely examining the way the novel interacts with and connects, or fails to connect, itself and it’s readers to the past. Robertson’s main areas of interest include science fiction, fantasy, horror, and twentieth and twenty-first century literature (Robertson, Curriculum). Conceding that

The Social-Approach Model In the West a paradigm shift change occurs in the late 1980’s/early 1990’s regarding transgender identities. This move emerges from two different sources; one, from a growing activist faction of the transgender community and two, from academia, where an ascendant poststructuralism/postmodernism from various disciplines such as the Social Sciences and the Humanities is challenging (or queering) the hegemony of traditional social structures, such as the essentialist framing