Haraway claims the cyborg as “a matter of fiction and lived experience.” Cyborg as a literal fictional creature is the projection of our social and physical reality, in a way cyborg foreshadows some of the intersection and connectivity of these two aspects. For me, the cyborg is a state of mixturing Human and Machine, a keep changing state that its definition also changes throughout time.

When our life is heavily influenced by machine, we need machine or technology to help us maintain our life condition and ability, we are cyborg also. Haraway uses “Chimera” as a metaphor to the people living in the twentieth century, claiming that we are theoretically fabricated hybrids of machine and organism. This new interpretation of the old Greek mythical creature is very interesting. Thinking about smart wearable devices and other innovation invention that changed our lifestyle, they dissolved in our life and so theoretically they are becoming one of our body. For example, at the present time the smartphone is no longer only a device for calling people, it contains the functionality of almost everything that we can no longer live without our smartphone. Though when Haraway wrote this paper in 1985 she did not know human in the future will turn the telephone into the smartphone, but what she predicted is indeed happen and still keep happening. The flawful boundary between human and machine is getting vaguer than ever in this technological era. Our relationship with devices life smartphone make us the cyborg in this era and differentiate us from the human in history.
What most interesting for me about this paper is the three questionable distinctions — animal and human, machine and human (non-organism and organism), and physical and non-physical. The discussion we have now regarding the distinction between human and cyborg is very much like the discussion about the distinction between human and animal before the genetic theory was widely introduced. The idea of “Textualization” suggests treating machine and organism both as coded text. Machine gets input data to function properly, human and animal also gets the bioelectric signal to behave. Maybe in the future, when scientists start to create the machine with organic material instead of inorganic, the discussion will have a different result. And maybe at that era cyborg will replace human to represent the new-human.
It seems like that Haraway’s cyborg myth is mostly about the destructive side of them. Especially that she regards the cyborg world as the apocalypse. The concerns of cyborg for Haraway are their illegitimate and monstrous identity and their potential joint kinship. The group of cyborg does not blood binding, no restriction of morality, which is the worst case is the extreme individualism. Based on the premises that cyborg does not have historically accumulated recognition of race, gender, and class, Haraway defines the new concept of coalition — a relationship which is bound through affinity rather than identity. Haraway opens up out discussion of RUR to another trajectory towards the growing understanding of the dualism, and question the existence of essentialism.