The Study Of Donna Haraway's Cyborg Theory

Cyborg theory was proposed by Donna J.Haraway,who is a famous interdisciplinary scholar from the American.This radical and avant-garde theory challenges the traditional either-or thinking and the hierarchical dualist world bravely.This paper discusses the background and connotation of cyborg theory,also discussing the transcendence of cyborg theory to bio-politics.What's more,this paper taking cyborg's image in recent Hollywood science fiction movies as examples to expound cyborg's science-fiction narrative mode.The paper is divided into four chapters.The first chapter introduces the historical context of cyborg theory.From the perspective of technological development,technologies have different relationships with human beings in different stages in the development history of human technology,which show a trend of growing closer.This trend provides a possibility for the construction of technological bodies and the advent of the post-human era.From an ideological point of view,cyborg theory was greatly influenced by the feminist movement.Haraway,taking socialist-feminism and radical feminism as examples,believes that feminists failed to notice that women of different classes,races and classes have different demands,and the excessive pursuit of intimacy and association makes feminists go further and further on the wrong path of identity fracture.It was the problems encountered by the feminist movement that made Haraway think with a transcendent and dynamic way and become the pioneer of the feminist movement.The second chapter discusses the concrete connotation of cyborg theory.Cyborg is a compound word,which is a mixed and complex concept constructed by biology,artificial intelligence,cloning technology,virtual network and other high-tech means.Cyborg's appearance broke numerous binary boundaries,such as the limits of human beings and animals,human and machines,as well as human and other organisms,and also triggered a series of discussions based on this new ontology.On one hand,cyborg represents an invasion of nature by genetic technology that is constantly disrupting the world.On the other hand,cyborg was the revolutionary of the new world,a force that brought about the possibility of historical change by destroying the old world with positive power.The third chapter discusses cyborg's transcendental dimension of bio-politics.Bio-politics is divided into body—personal discipline power and population—national governance.Under the influence of discipline power and governance,people's life and body have become the objects of political technology for self-consolidation and self-improvement.Unlike Foucault's "body",cyborg cannot be defined as an organism.If bio-politics is about controlling the activities of life,cyborg directly changes life itself.Specifically,cyborg broke through the constraints of life politics from three perspectives:body,sex/gender and space-time.Chapter four focuses on the cyborg narrative.Haraway attaches great importance to science-fiction narration,which not only reflects people's conception of the future body and the future world,but also reflects on human destiny in the narration.This chapter discusses the significance of realizing a new political ecology of equality and freedom in cyborg's technical vision through the analysis of cyborg's narrative symbol system including cyborg's narrative struggle mode,narrative metaphor and the images of cyborg in Hollywood science fiction movies.