Philosophy

Haraway seeks to create an ironic political myth which brings together postmodernism with socialist feminism. The image of the cyborg takes a central place in her myth. A cyborg is a cybernetic organism which is a combination of machine and organism, a creature that reflects social reality as well as fiction. Irony as used in the cyborg myth is of great significance and it cannot be overlooked. This is because it underscores a sense of agency within the world around humans. Once one acknowledges the worlds agency in knowledge it invites possibilities that are not calm and settled, not leaving out a worlds independent sense of humor. It is believed that technology and its allied partner, civilizations are means of dominating nature and subjecting it to human will. The combination of nature and civilization translates to cyborg. It is important to note that the cyborgs border is merely an optical illusion. The quest to explain and influence the cyborg results into a border war which is fought a terrain and hence is by and large an optical illusion. It is a mistake to regard the cyborg as a thing of the future.


Introduction
Haraway political affiliations are pegged to social feminism. Her cyborg manifesto which she wrote in 1986 was addressed to the radical feminist movement both in the United States and Europe. Theoretically, radical feminism, attempted to investigate the archaic foundations of gender oppression. She sympathized with the factors that led to radical feminism. Her worries evolved from the movement Goddess feminism, which was characterized by the American objective to turn down technological things and take back women to nature. In Haraways point of view, this movement was a reactionary one and not even close to progressive feminist politics. She got attracted to writing this manifesto due to the French writers like Monique and Luce, who encouraged women to decline histories of masculinities and focus on the truths about their bodies as well as documenting that truth. This could be done through autobiography and performance. As a result, feminine writing triggered a generation of feminine writing with a generation of feminists.

Cyborg Manifesto
Haraway seeks to create an ironic political myth which brings together postmodernism with socialist feminism. The image of the cyborg takes a central place in her myth. A cyborg is a cybernetic organism which is a combination of machine and organism, a creature that reflects social reality as well as fiction. The cyborg is by analogy a symbol of the postmodernism and identity political play, while on the other hand it is an experienced reality as afar as technology is concerned. Haraway argues of the cyborg as a fiction relating to the social and bodily reality and as an imaginative asset connoting various productive coupling.

Irony as used in the cyborg myth is of great significance and it cannot be overlooked. This is because it underscores a sense of agency within the world around humans. Once one acknowledges the worlds agency in knowledge it invites possibilities that are not calm and settled, not leaving out a worlds independent sense of humor. It permeates possibilities of surprises and ironies at the core foundation of all production of knowledge. The cyborg plays a significant role in shifting political and physical territories, which in its connection with humans and the world around them many times it intelligently pulls the rug out from underneath what is perceived as natural.

It is believed that technology and its allied partner, civilizations are means of dominating nature and subjecting it to human will. The combination of nature and civilization translates to cyborg. This cyborg resists events that have past or have gone before it is argued that it exceeds its total parts. The cyborg has nothing in relation to salvation history nor does it interest itself with salvation history. It is not influenced by time in its attempt to streamline adverse intricacies of gender. The cyborg is rather a reality in a post-gender era. It has no elements of bisexuality, labor with no alienation, or other attractions for it to function as a composite whole.

The cyborg exists in ways not limited to nature or culture, but to a large extent is a combination of both it is neither limited to binarisms in the traditional sense nor is it limited to dualist paradigms. It exists as an unfettered creature and as a polymorphous perversity. It develops its vision within the context of its polyvocal play and develops its troubling tendencies in its very origins. It is a descendant of militarism as well as patriarchal capitalism.

Normally, there are a trio set of boundary breakdowns in the creation of a cyborg.  The first level is between human and animal. Theories in Biology and Evolution have concurrently produced present organisms as objects of knowledge. The second level of boundary breakdown is that between organism and machine. In this light, household machines are becoming more of living organisms and even acquiring personalities. In addition, there is a mingling between humans and machines for medical reasons and objectives. Individuals are acquiring artificial body parts like limbs and machines are used to aid them in hearing better, just to mention a few. The third and last level of boundary breakdown is accorded to organic and inorganic substances. It is noted that the best machines are developed from sunshine they are luminous and tidy because they are products of electromagnetic waves which is only a mere spectrum section. Humans do not enjoy this perfection.

Mechanical creatures can accommodate huge amounts of information just recorded in very tiny chips and put beyond reach. This renders them potent weapons that are hard to fathom both politically and materially. The cyborg myth gives a lee way for progressive people who might wish to explore politically. The myth is all about the inconsistent, partial and structured identities of the postmodern age. The cyborg myth has the capacity for radical political movement as it emancipates feminists from a hopeless, desperate and anxious searching for similarity with one another, given that the physical and epistemological boundary sabotage can be extrapolated to the crossings of the political boundaries. One of the major cyborgs vision is in its usage as an analogical paradigm for political action. To reiterate what has been mentioned above, the cyborg myth is about transgressed territories, fusions, and precarious capacities which can be adopted by individuals as one part of desired political action.
It is important to note that the cyborgs border is merely an optical illusion. The quest to explain and influence the cyborg results into a border war which is fought a terrain and hence is by and large an optical illusion. It is a mistake to regard the cyborg as things of the future. Indeed, modern medicine is full of cyborgs as was indicated earlier long in this discussion. It is indisputable to say that all are cyborgs whether one is aware of it or not. Politics of cyborg relate to oppressive mythologies, for instance, racism, male dominance egoism, and scientific progress. In addition, it encompasses nature exploitation in serving the needs of culture.

Cyborg does not depend on human reproduction for its existence and being. It is of no gender since it is neither male nor female. Its modalities and dynamics go beyond mythologies within the Freudian scope that have been of great haunt to feminism for many centuries. It is not interested with eschatological freedom nor does it wait for a master to save it. It does not need conjugal satisfaction by having a soul mate or have a family to associate with as is purported by psychoanalytic mythologies.
The cyborg has no history engraved in the military. However, it can be argued somewhat that it has a history connected to military industrial complex. It serves as the end result in the story of the West especially in regard to the escalating influence in regard to its environment. Further to this, the cyborg is characterized by utopian qualities, opposition and it is devoid of innocence. The cyborgs cannot be trustworthy given that they descend from militarism and patriarchal capitalism although they are not so bad off. This can be justified on the dictum that offspring of an illegitimate character are in most cases not loyal to their origins. Unlike what many American socialists and feminists believe especially in the hylemorphic nature of creatures for instance, psycho-physic parallelism, animal and machine, and idealism and materialism. This does not apply to cyborgs.

Conclusion
I strongly concur with the assertion that there is nothing like identity politics nothing in females that binds them as females. No gender is limited to itself. There are a lot of feminists movements taking place in the world and I believe that women should not waste time searching for an essential woman. Cyborg reality is a human creation so it cannot be used as a reality beyond humans. Its capability to survive without social inclinations like family, soul mate, sex identity or lack of body and mind is an expression of mans mental reality that has got no representation in the external world. As such, it can be regarded as a hallucination. In this regard, the cyborg of Haraway is all but mere hallucination of the mind which simply expresses her imaginary ideals and projected desires. However, it can be used to add value to the gender struggles going on and more, it can be used to awaken women in taking an active role in the society.