Central to Foucault's theoretical framework is his analysis of knowledge, truth and power, or how certain accounts of the world come to be accepted as expressing the essential truth about our social reality. Foucault argued that claims to the status of truth and knowledge could only be made from within a discourse, that we could only have an understandig of the world through our ideas about it. Discourses are not just ideas, they are also practices, ways of producing knowledge, and ways of shaping the world according to that knowledge. The American biologist and philosopher Donna Haraway is a professor at the History of Consiousness Board in Santa Cruz. She was one of the first people who tried to connect feminism and technology.
Cyborgs are human and machine at the same time.
Cyborgs are creatures living on the edge of nature and technology and therefore they do not show interest in such boundaries. For cyborgs, technology is self-evident. Such opposite binaries have always been fiction, Haraway states. In her manifesto, she tries to understand how such binaries work and what they produce. Nowadays, people can hardly live without thechnology.