Donna Haraway

Kinship is a theme that runs throughout the novel. “Kin is a wild category that all sorts of people do their best to domesticate (Haraway, Staying With the Trouble, 2).”is typically defined as a familial relationship. However, Haraway simplifies the definition to include friends and others around us. She explains the various ways in which people can “make” kin. The main characters in The Sunlight Pilgrims have a complex family tree…

In a world that is nearing its end, one must learn how to survive and remain resilient in the face of imminent danger. The Sunlight Pilgrims tells the story of two broken, yet interconnected families. Through an intrinsic need to work together, these families learn how to adapt and survive impending doom. Climate change is ravaging the small town of Clachan Fells in Jenni Fagan’s novel The Sunlight Pilgrims. Temperatures have dropped below zero and conditions are becoming unbearable. The…

Haraway defines cyborgs in four different ways: a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality, and a creature of fiction. While the second and third definition might seem to match Blade Runner's replicants, they have…

discusses the social and different issues within the world of technology. I chose to focuses in on two different articles within each section that best represent each section In the article “The Cyborg Manifesto and Fractured Identities.” written by Donna Haraway, she talks about the idea of an emerging system created by industrial capitalism. She breaks down the industrialization…

showed interest only for profit, they were unable to see the subordination and oppression. Black women were in more desperate position then black men. They fought with they own status as a “subject” and the status of their children and husbands. As Donna Haraway pointed out in her essay Ecce Homo celoto ime (1989) “slave mothers could not transmit a name; they could not be wives; they were outside the system of marriage exchange. Slaves were unpositioned, unfixed, in a system of names; they…

Italian Futurism and English Vorticism are generally considered to be Modernist movements. Indeed, literary scholar Peter Childs includes Futurism and Vorticism in his seminal book aptly titled Modernism, placing them amongst other Modernist movements like Expressionism, Surrealism, and Dadaism (14). In one of Childs’s many definitions of Modernism, he argues that the movement is imbued with “radical aesthetics, technical experimentation, spatial or rhythmic rather than chronological form,…

Margaret Atwood, a literary giant raised her eyebrows as a young poet in 1960’s and since then through her sarcastic tongue and wicked sense of humour has received reputation for being brilliant writer. Her passion and knowledge has given her a position of an internationally acclaimed writer. Names like George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Ray Bradbury are mentioned once the topic of dystopia and dystopian societies arise. One way or the other the dystopian predictions of the future that they have…

in a multitude of ways. They will ultimately be our races downfall by becoming the dominant species as humans allow them to take on unwanted responsibilities. Soon the human race will be purposeless life forms that robots see no need to exist. Donna J Haraway “A Cyborg Manifesto”…

In a speech given at a women’s studies conference, Audre Lorde narrates a structural critique of racist heteropatriarchy given her intersectionality as a Black lesbian. Heteropatriarchy can be described simply as straight male dominance. Although they have different amounts of melanin in their skin, Lorde describes the similarities White women and women of color face in regards to misogyny, men, and institutions. She brings up anger and the role emotions have played in the contemporary United…

expectations; the majority, however, were those who still trusted in the status quo, upholding the ideals and traditions of a society dominated by men. Cynthia Pon, in her award-winning essay on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, recalls the words of Donna Haraway when she says that Victorian women, “those who suffer[ed], who [did] not own their own…