Abstract
This essay explores how, for many minoritized peoples, cyborg ontology is experienced as dehumanizing rather than posthumanizing. Rereading Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto through a decolonial, transfeminist lens, it explores the implications of Haraway’s assertion that cyborg subjectivity is the “illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism” by examining the modern/colonial development and deployment of microprosthetic hormonal technologies–so often heralded as one of the technologies ushering in a queer, posthuman, post-gender future–as mechanisms of gendered and racialized subjective control operative at the level of the biomolecular.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 179-190 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 3 2017 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Cultural Studies
- Philosophy
- Literature and Literary Theory