Cyborg - an Impossible Identification: Donna Haraway with Jacques Ranciere Cover Image

Kiborg - nemoguća identifikacija: Dona Haravej sa Žakom Ransijerom
Cyborg - an Impossible Identification: Donna Haraway with Jacques Ranciere

Author(s): Ivan Milenković
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Keywords: cyborg; impossible identifications; identity; nature; order; norm

Summary/Abstract: This paper is about the intersecting points of two theoretical models with dif erent origins: Ranciere’s model of dif erentiation of politics and police, and Donna Haraway’s conceptualization of cyborgs. Both models assume Ranciere’s concept of “impossible identification”, that is, the coupling of heterogeneous structures, or paradox. “Impossible identifications” are a threat to every existing order that relies on identity of form and content, natural and normative aspect, that is to say on the possibility of an identification corresponding to the police procedures. A cyborg is an aberration, the logic that dei nes police procedure cannot identify it with anything known or recognizable and therefore the concept of cyborg opens up the sphere of politics

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 59-73
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Serbian