PJRP - Interview with Arthur Kroker - Part 2
Channel: Relationalities
Date: 2011-09-23

Donna Haraway insists that the political outcome of global "networks of connection" is ambiguous: on the one hand, she discusses the formation of an "informatics of domination" based on the "social relations of science and technology" (namely an historical apparatus organized through structured material relations among people); on the other hand, she discusses the formation of innovative, potentially emancipatory and resistant technological affinity groups. So, considering that cyborgs are the offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism as she says, what do you think of her enthusiastic claim that the "fathers [of cyborgs], after all, are inessential"? In other words, can the human-machine coupling be separated from its origination in an apparatus of domination in order to give rise to autonomous forms of life and sociality?

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