Manfesto cyborg

Manifesto Cyborg

According to the international health organization the concept of men and women refers to the social prestablished roles, behaviours, activities and conceptions of wright and wrong, to all of this comes the connotation of not only customs but the dehumanization of a person for the only labeling of what is asked of it.

In the other hand, the term cyborg tries to leave aside men and woman connotation. Donna Haraway began the cyborg manifesto, which is an essay that tries to stablish an alternative to the essentialist feminism. It’s known to produce a great polemic in academic and feminist worlds because of its trial of the eradication of gender. The general affirmation it’s the erase of distinction between animals and humanity and between humanity and machines, leaving a being untied from society, beliefs, institutions and natural cycles.

The video shows a person who  jumped from a building but didn’t fall, this, to prove the humanity without labels of each person, referring to the standards as the building and the person as the idea of a ruled label for women or man, this could be known because of the characteristics showed, for example the hair wasn´t as short or long as the standard of men or women, and was all dressed in black freeing itself from the color stereotype it was babbling the song’s lyrics and was also playing with the idea of jumping taking in consideration the people gathering around and flirting with the idea of not falling but advancing, it critics all about the social makeup, the infrastructure of society that gathers around a polemic to supposedly contained it and make it happen in its own “proper” way but suppress it.

 The dehumanization of people has a wide history known only by the revolution of its means. Nowadays we have to take out all the stereotypes of our minds and to start treating people like what they are, just people.To respect and develop social relationships in base of tolerance and acceptance.

This is why the concept of cyborg is so new and we really expect that some day maybe it will be aceepted.

Donna Haraway //Manuel Talens. (1991). MANIFIESTO CYBORG . 20-01-17, de PDF Sitio web: http://blogs.fad.unam.mx/asignatura/adriana_raggi/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/manifiesto-cyborg.pdf

Hijos de la chingada

Hijos de la chingada

“Nacidos de la chingada, muertos en la chingada, vivos por pura chingadera: vientre y mortaja, escondidos en la chingada.” (Extracto de la novela La muerte de Artemio Cruz)

Mexico is one of the richest countries of the world; it has been sacked for centuries and is still on its feet, this was a saying of Margarethe Tatcher first woman to achieve being first minister of UK, as she said, Mexico is rich on resources, it has all climates excepting tundra and over 10% of total species in the world are founded there; nonetheless what Margaret Tatcher is also denoting in her phrase about Mexico’s richness is focused on the same thing that Octavio Paz captures on the fourth chapter of his book El Laberinto De La Soledad titled Los Hijos De La Malinche.

Octavio Paz knew better than the majority that Mexican people is full; full of passion, of hate, of fear, of love, of courage, of ideas and full of conviction sometimes wrong directed and even though it might contradict each emotion to other he painted in cruelty a common Mexican that would walk on the street every day at his country with his head up high. Octavio was a Mexican writer born on 1914 at the chaos itself; the Mexican revolution gave him a scholarship but took away his father for a long time, he suffered the cultural shock before and after LA, he recalls being punched the first day he arrived to school at LA an latter on at Mexico, his premature interest on letters and his grandfather’s occupation made out of him a poet and a politic concerned civilian, and taking into account that he didn’t wrote El Laberinto De La Soledad at his birth country we should suppose that he had such a deep experience with the culture that he could and did described them by heart; you’ll see, his living context had prepared him for this moment, he not only had American but French and Spanish influence, he counted with the expanded vision of an insider and a foreign mind.

So we can say El Laberinto De La Soledad is a book written by the mind of a man and the heart of a stone, he was rude but honest with his kind.

Los Hijosde La Malinche talks specifically about the culture development since the Spanish conquered Mexico, how Mexicans are sons of a violated culture (ingrown by la Malinche in this case as a metaphor) and abandoned by their mother into the unknown, growing slowly a bastard nation based in two types of personality, the braves and the cowards (on the book would be Los chingones and los agachados) giving life to the famous saying the brave will live till the coward wants, Mexico has been guided by the ones who’s brave personality predominates on proportional amount to their brutality, the Mexican personality has guide them to a quick winning and a long term losing that is only achievable by its enigmatic and their hermetic  thinking.

On a close look to the fourth chapter of this book we would find the Mexican soul in its starkest way. Los Hijos De La Malinche are transformed on to Los Hijos De La Chingada, this is thanks to the specific word chingada, chingar, chignon; in fact there isn’t any specific meaning in Spanish or translation in English for this word and all of its contexts:

“En México los significados de la palabra son innumerables. Es una voz mágica. Basta un cambio de tono, una inflexión apenas, para que el sentido varíe.” (Extracto de El laberinto de la soledad)

As the Mexican itself chingar is a many personalities word, it could mean everything and nothing at the same time. It is all about the way you say it, the way you treat it and receive it, how is pronounced and in which context, just as the Mexican, sometimes depends from the other words for not being meaningless while other times it meaning alone is enough.

At last, how hermetic we are? Are we fully conscious about how is to be a motherless child borned of violation and walking through history looking forward? I think we are, we have many contexts and every moment rebuilds what we are, what we think and how we develop through time, Mexican people aren’t children of circumstances at all, they are creators of their magic realism and La chingada only exist because of it, of its culture, its thinking, believing, acting and at the end La chingada isn’t he mother… is us.

With information recovered from:

https://tintaguerrerensedotcom.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/los-hijos-de-la-chingada-segun-octavio-paz-y-carlos-fuentes-libros-completos-el-laberinto-de-la-soledad-y-la-muerte-de-artemio-cruz/

http://animales-endemicos-mx.blogspot.mx/2012/11/animales-endemicos-en-mexico.html

http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/modules/lesson6/spanish/octaviopaz.html

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_laberinto_de_la_soledad

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio_Paz#Primeros_a.C3.B1os

On April 1^st 2016 from different authors