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  1. No Origin Story
  2. Haraway explains that the cyborg is a post-gender creature that has no “origin story.” An “origin story” extends all the way back to the mother’s womb and it has to do with ”the task of individual development and of history” (192).
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  4. “The cyborg skips the step of original unity, of identification with nature in the Western sense” (192).
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  6. Political-Fictional Analysis of Cyborgs
  7. Haraway bases this analysis on three significant boundary breakdowns
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  9. The seperation between humans and animals has come to an end. We have affirmed the intrinsic connection between humans and other creatures
  10. The distinction between living organisms and machinery has faded. The machines are getting more and more humanlike as time goes by.
  11. The boundary between physical and non-physical. Ever since the importance of magnetic waves, signals and quantum physics increased, miniaturization has come to be related with power
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