Flatline Constructs

Donna Haraway’s celebrated observation that “our machines are disturbingly lively while we ourselves are frighteningly inert” has given this issue a certain currency in contemporary cyber-theory. But what is in- teresting about Haraway’s remark – its challenge to the oppositional think- ing that sets up free will against determinism vitalism against mechanism – has seldom been processed by a mode of theorizing which has tended to reproduce exactly the same oppositions. These theoretical failings...See More