Donna Haraway Meets Surprised Pikachu

Donna Haraway: The development of new technologies has led to the breakdown of boundaries between human-animals, organisms-machines, and physical-nonphysical has significant societal implications and is an opportunity for us to move beyond an emphasis on traditional identity of products. Therefore we should think critically about how our lives and our devices may interact, to reconstruct identity Everyone else: Yeah that's cool or whatever. *yells at their alexas to play despacito* Donna Haraway:

The meme contrasts Donna Haraway’s dense academic discussion of blurred boundaries between humans, animals, organisms, machines, and physical and nonphysical identities with everyone’s casual reaction. The punchline is that people ignore the profound philosophical implications and simply shout at Alexa to play “Despacito.” A surprised Pikachu represents Haraway’s shocked reaction to this trivial use of technology.

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