Cyborg Narratives..?

Haraway’s cyborg is ultimately a metaphor that disrupts systems of dualistic and defining logic, and so is a model for the way that identity can be reconstructed within the organic framework. Because they are neither technology nor nature, woman nor man, human nor machine,—because they simultaneously fit into and don’t fit into these categories—the cyborg body, as matter in and out of place, disrupts these binaries. But the potential of the cyborg could run along two very different trajectories:

A dystopian collective in which we are stripped of humanity, where the process that are intrinsically human become mechanized. By for example replacing sexual reproduction with “replication,” and “organic sex role specialization” with “optimal genetic strategies”, this cyborg ontology seems to erase ‘humanness’. Haraway envisions an alternative: a world in which what it means to be human is fundamentally flexible: a self and communities created through transgressed boundaries and blurred distinctions.

Haraway focuses much of her discussion on gender, but I am wondering what implications her arguments have on race. What processes, such as the reproductive ones I described above, would have to be mechanized in regards to race and racial hierarchies in order to erase and disrupt race distinction/race? What biological sites could be melded with technology and machine to fundamentally erase race?

also in response to Lizzie’s post..How does the notion of the 'integrated circuit's' disruption of the public/private divide complicate the notion of an interior ontology, the inner/private self being the site of our personhood?