This episode is dedicated to an analysis of contemporary photography using Donna Haraway’s classic text The Cyborg Manifesto and a few other related theoretical ideas. Karen Barad’s idea of socio-materiality and intra-action and Michel Callon’s actor-network theory.

Browse the gallery for examples on the referenced photographers’ works.

Artist websites: Maria Svarbova, Brooke Didonato, Ben Zank, Lin Yung Chen, Flóra Borsi, cache_bunny

References

BARAD, Karen. 2003. ‘Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter’. Signs, 28(3), 801-831

CALLON, Michel. 2012. ‘Några element av en översättnings-sociologi: domesticeringen av pilgrimsmusslor och fiskare vid St. Brieucbukten’. In Cecilia ÅSBERG, Martin HULTMAN & Francis LEE (ed.). Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter. 1st edn. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 153-174

HARAWAY, Donna Jeanne (2016). Manifestly Haraway. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press