Week Four Readings

These readings were wack, if you ask me. Let me Explain...

"A Cyborg Manifesto" by Donna Haraway
1. "Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves , a section of a spectrum, and these machines are eminently portable, mobile- a matter of immense human pain in Detroit and Singapore."
-Is the tail end of this quote a labor reference? I would realy like some perspective on this quote.
2. "There is nothing about being "female" that naturally binds women."
- This quote follows a passage expressing that it is difficult (I would personally argue impossible) to specify an acute definition of feminism or femist values. this is actually what my next video will be on.


"Postcolonial Media Theory" by Maria Fernandez
1. "In the West, reclaiming histories has been a preliminary step in the construction of identity for marginalized people."
- This might be slightly off topic, but could the Chicana/o movement's reclaiming of Atzlan (the original Aztec homeland- located in modern day America) fit into this category?


"The Appended Subject" by Jennifer Gonzales
1. "Given the kinds of images avvailable on the Web, this gesture is probably groundbreaking, though it remains to be seen how successful it is in desexualizing the body, as the representative forms in Bodies INC are tall and slim and decidely reflect the Euro-American ideal."
- I just thought I'd point this out as another exmaple of how "white" and "thin" is so commonly seen as the stereotype of beauty. let's break that stereotype down!