"Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves"
This manifesto has three main ideas that stick out to me. The first is a vision of a non-duelist and genderless society as seen by the advance of technology. The second is that machines and human interactions are cybernetic by nature. The third is that humans need to regenerate and not birth or "re-birth". I can see where the author is coming from about regeneration; humans regenerate already and our personalities are different from one point to another. Although I would argue that there is something at the core of every human being, beyond DNA, that is essentially true. This truth goes beyond machine or genetics.
This article seems to be presenting the idea that people act as both machine and circuit, while overcoming the processes that make each an individual. I personally found the article interesting, and I understand how the idea of blasphemy can help people draw conclusions. I don't think this was a serious manifesto to the author's intentions. This is because it presents a very terrible outlook which is completely contrary to human freedom. Socialism in this context is more like a mass of brainwashed half machine, mostly machine, half human beings....if you could even call them beings.
The theories of socialism, feminism, etc. suggest that the author is an Atheist who wants to get away from the idea of God, and the nature of good and evil.
I couldn't help but consider that science reveals that we are binary and dualist by nature, but even beyond human beings perhaps the universe itself is more of a duelist than monotheist by nature. In essence, if machines were to become the new state of collective human consciousness, then perhaps we'd be worshipping a non-entity, and absolute of violence and necessity, there-fore a sort of mono-theist God. Our machines become our God, and then what is evil?
Anything that is not machine bred becomes the anti-evolution of the cyborg culture. And yet we still live in binary terms, although things would have changed from organic belief systems to programmed and thoughtless ideals. I couldn't help but think that this Manifisto's world seems very bleak and unnatural. I would have to disagree with the author's last statement. I'd rather be a human than a cyborg because a machine would not last long in the grand scheme of things. It would have no sense of desire and therefore have no reason to exist. The only Gods of these cyborgs would be the ones of history, who programmed the future generations of machines to worship them. Perhaps, even more-so than a fictionalized manifesto, this is a political statement that points out flaws in culture, relgion, and the ethics of socialism.
