Nietzsche said "God is dead"—now so is the Goddess. Through a reading of Donna Haraway's fabulous "Cyborg Manifesto", we delve into what it means to write, speak, and live knowing that there is no originary or objective meaning to draw from. We look at how blaspheming against systems of thought means to take them seriously, even as we confuse their boundaries and repurpose them for survival, and, most importantly, pleasure. Through Haraway's figure of the Cyborg we explore the leaky fusions opened up within these "illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism", embracing their monstrousness and contradictions while rejecting their cruel fathers as inessential. Corrupting the most deeply held essentialisms on our hard drives, the Cyborg does not attempt to flee back to an original innocence but to survive and thrive in the mess of it all—after all, isn't it only in the muck of the profane that the sacred emerges?

End notes:

A Cyborg Manifesto from Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna Haraway

Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis

The art of Hajime Sorayama

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