Feminists never bought the idea of a mind set free from its body | Aeon Essays

We talk about waves of feminism in a way that strikes me as quite different from other areas of political discourse: why? There is, then, an inbuilt or assumed obsolescence for feminist thinking, rather than a model of amendment, addition, and new centers for new discussions.

Maybe the mind should join the soul, God and ether in the dustbin of science?

Within a century or two, the combination of biotechnology and AI might result in physical and mental traits that completely break free of the hominid mold. Some believe that consciousness might even be severed from any organic structure and could surf cyberspace free of all biological and physical constraints. On the other hand, we might witness th

Donna Haraway, one of the cyborg’s most notable theorists, named long ago what many of us unconsciously sense in the presence of high-tech tools: “Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used