<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>In her influential text A Cyborg Manifesto (1985), Donna Haraway proposes a radical transgression of binary oppositions such as nature and technology, male and female, organic and synthetic. The cyborg thus becomes a metaphor of resistance against essentialist notions of identity and rigid power structures. In academic and artistic circles—especially within queer, posthumanist, and transfeminist studies—the cyborg is a symbol of a liberating alternative for those who transcend normative frameworks of body, gender, nature, and culture.</div><div><br></div><div>For many who experience exclusion, identification with the non-human (monstrous, synthetic, animalistic) can be a form of relief: robots, monsters, dolls, or mythical creatures also do not belong to the ‘normal’ human world—yet they are more stably grasped within it, unlike tabooed bodies. Identification with these Others can serve as both a survival strategy and an act of defiance. The problem is that society often views those who identify with the non-human (monstrous, synthetic, cybernetic, or animalistic) as bizarre, cool, or frightening rather than listening to what they have to say. Haraway herself warns against embracing the cyborg as a fetish. The aestheticization of monstrosity may represent a comforting way for society to cope with the discomfort of encountering what truly exceeds norms. Therefore, identification with the non-human is not automatically liberating; it can become emancipatory only when it is recognized not merely as an aesthetic but also as a testimony—with a right to political and existential dimensions</div><div><br></div><div>More at <a href="https://screensaver.gallery/tereza-vinklarkova-vojta-dubcova-michal-durda-monster-manifesto">https://screensaver.gallery/tereza-vinklarkova-vojta-dubcova-michal-durda-monster-manifesto</a></div><div><br></div><div>Save Your Screen!</div><div><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Get ScreenSaverGallery <a href="https://screensaver.gallery/get">https://screensaver.gallery/get</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Follow ScreenSaverGallery on <a href="https://t.me/screensavergallery">Telegram</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/screensavergallery/">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ScreenSaverGallery">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ScreenSaverGallery">GitHub</a>, <a href="https://screensaver.metazoa.org/feed/">RSS</a>, <a href="https://listmonk.screensaver.gallery/subscription/form">Newsletter</a></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">🌸 Sponsor <a href="https://opencollective.com/screensavergallery">https://opencollective.com/screensavergallery</a></div></div></body></html>