Category: MTEC2120

In Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” she starts off by saying she wants this essay to be a political myth faithful both to feminism and materialism. She define cyborg as a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of lived social reality, and last a creature of fiction. Haraway says that cyborg will change what counts as experience for women in the late twentieth century. Haraway alludes to the cyborg as monsters, but she hints the cyborg is a figure that show promise for feminism.

 

Reading – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tsk095TFqERK3Y53lx4LzJwtYzJ3du-8/view

 

This is my flowchart of cleaning my room. I start by folding blankets and any clothes lay around in my room. Then I see which ones are dirty, so I put them in the hamper. Then I start making the bed. After that I move on to my desk, start organizing that. While doing all these steps, I’m always throwing all the trash on the floor. And the last step I sweep the floor.

Cybernetics comes from the Greek word meaning to steer or to pilot. In the video he also mention that it’s a spiral, you advance, you go forward. Which mean that someone will do something, analyze it, then steer yourself to the goal you want achieve. And this feedback is what cybernetics is. “Setting goals and questioning those goals is something that cybernetics lets someone do consciously and explicitly”.

 

Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfxtZwymXuA

 

 

Short Video of Terrain – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pKXIGfs4fKC2oWD367-FeqQLwPEbYZry/view?usp=sharing

Updated Video of Terrain –

https://drive.google.com/file/d/134XAexy_kBB9-vbIbLOZEujBMn4JS82L/view?usp=sharing