ABSTRACT
Donna Haraway is keenly attentive to questions of teaching and learning, which she links to literacy “of several varieties”. She seems most closely to follow in the conceptual footsteps of poststructuralist theory, with its keen attention to writing as a technique or a technology. In some respects, the new possibilities for pleasure that Haraway describes are central to her argument for the political potential of the cyborg myth. Her essay has been extremely influential and studied in an exceptionally wide range of contexts. It made the author’s name and has become a common text to cite in discussions of contemporary feminism, cultural theory, postmodernism, and the relationship between humans and technology. The new possibilities of pleasure afforded by cyborg blending of human and technology are just as important as the need for collective action. Literacy of various kinds is a crucial part of political potential, as well as another potential source of pleasure.
