사이보그 인식론과 성의 정치학 - 포스트휴먼 페미니즘의 비판과 수용

• 영문명: Cyborg Epistemology and its Sexual Politics: Criticism and Reception of Posthuman Feminism
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 유제분(Jeboon Yu)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제36집 3호, 152~171쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2004.12.01

영문 초록

  This paper starts with the question if the posthuman feminism can provide our contemporary period of "informatics of domination" with a new feminist epistemology and vision. For the answer to this question, firstly, it reviews the major posthuman feminist, Donna Haraway"s feminist epistemology and sexual polities focusing on her "Cyborg Manifesto" and also Katherine Hayles" posthuman epistemology in general.
  The second section focuses on Haraway"s "situated knowledge" at the center of her epistemology, a concept suggested as a feminist alternative to the universal and essential knowledge of science.
  Thirdly, the study briefly reviews the criticism of the major feminist critics such as Ann Balsamo, Judith Squires, Claudia Springer, Sadie Plant and Mary Ann Doane against Haraway"s cyborg feminism,
  This paper also borrows Chela Sandoval"s view on Haraway"s cyborg epistemology and thus tries to find a linkage between postcolonial feminism and posthuman feminism. Sandoval contends that Haraway"s cyborg politics appeared not only with the development of the technology but also in close relationship with the resistance against the oppression of the Third World laborers within the U. S. A.
  The final section points out a few problems embedded in Haraway"s cyborg epistemology and its sexual politics such as its lack of the discussion of fantasy and unconsciousness and the problem of defining feminist subject outside of the boundary of sexuality.

키워드

포스트휴먼페미니즘 사이보그 선언문 부적절한/부적절하게된 타자 상황지식 진화 Posthuman Feminism Cyborg Manifesto Inappropriate/D other Situated Knowledge Evolution