Cyborg Geographies: Towards Hybrid Epistemologies

Source: Gender, Place and Culture, 16(5) (2009): 499 geographies : Towards Hybrid EpistemologiesMatthew W. WilsonIntroductionCyborgs can be figures for living within contradictions, attentive to the naturecultures of mundane practices, opposed to the dire myths of self-birthing, embracing mortality as the condition for life, and alert to the emergent historical hybridities actually populating the world at all its contingent scales. (Haraway 2003a, 11) Cyborg geographies enact Hybrid ways of knowing. This article argues that the Cyborg s frequent citation as a literal marker for machinic-organic life has clouded the role of the Cyborg as a figuration. While geographic literatures have cited the Cyborg to signal an ontological hybridity, the epistemological hybridity of Cyborg figuration has been less explored.

Cyborg Geographies: Towards Hybrid Epistemologies Matthew W. Wilson Introduction Cyborgs can be figures for living within contradictions, attentive to the naturecultures of mundane practices, opposed to the dire myths of self-birthing, embracing mortality as the condition for life, and alert to the

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