Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Haraway's 1991 essay collection gathering the canonical "A Cyborg Manifesto" and "Situated Knowledges"
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Simians, Cyborgs, and Women (Mid) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Non-Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Bi-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Community |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Variable |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Variable |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The 1980s essays of late-Cold-War feminist socialism.
Space
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The cybernetic-techno-scientific spaces of late-twentieth-century capitalism.
Matter
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The hybrid bodies — biological-cybernetic — of the cyborg politics.
Observer
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The situated-feminist observer of cybernetic-organic synthesis.
Energy
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The political-techno-scientific energies of late-twentieth-century feminism.
Information
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The cybernetic-informational content of cyborg-feminist analysis.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Cyborg feminism has been variously assessed — defenders see proper late-twentieth-century socialist-feminist politics, critics worry about the depoliticisation of technological-capitalist conditions.