In the article “Cybord Manifesto” Donna Haraway defines a cyborg as a “cybernetic organism, hybrid of machine, and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction” (475). In western traditional movies, you often see traditions such as male dominance, racism, and the reproduction of men and women. In this sense the cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense. Cyborgs bring new ideas to science fiction films such as being able to reproduce asexually, rather from the traditional reproduction with man and a woman.
There are different “boundary breakdowns” that give have given the cyborg myth its political potential. The advancement of animal rights is a clear sighted recognition of connection between humans and animals, which is the first breakdown Haraway mentions in the article. “Biology and evolutionary theory over the last two centuries have simultaneously produced modern organisms as objects of knowledge and reduced the line between humans and animals” (477). The second distinction is between animal-human and machine. The advancement when it comes to the technology of machine has allowed them to take the place of human work. They are more efficient and work faster compared to humans. The third distinction she talks about is physical v.s. non-physical.

Film 301
Quentin Hughes