The cyborg is a figure we now easily connect with early 1990s feminist technoscience studies, indeed it is a foundational figure of the field. However, cyborgs do not just trace older, but also a lot more ambiguous and less feminist roots within our technoscientific modernity. The aim of this article is to provide a genealogical map of feminist entanglements with especially the biological sciences and with the body. In particular, I aim here to show how the figure of the cyborg in fact might be positioned as the first sign materializing and anticipating what we today might call the ontological turn within feminist theory and technoscience studies.
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tracing the historiography and ontological turn of feminist technoscience studies