Very difficult text for me right now. Definitely something that needs time and study and digestion. Extremely dense not in the sense that it's dry and trudging but it's just so packed with message in every sentence and in a way that's beyond my level right now.

P.S. very relieved after reading these reviews to see I was not the only person fighting for my life to interpret this. I think my issue is that I'm not emerged deeply enough yet in sci-tech and more advanced philosophy.

Was introduced this years ago through a class about media, information, and technology and I'm pretty mad that they mentioned gender as a side note when it was actually the entire point and premise of the text.

Reflections, notes, keywords:
- Human animality, breaching culture/nature boundary
- Innocence of nature - being pure and separate and naturalized, nonconstructed + nonconceived (<<< questionable)
- Naming is an exclusive act and brings consciousness to contradiction and partiality and choice
- Gender, race, class do not have essential unity (they defy to be essentialized and reducible to universal meaning) specifically in light of "the matrix of women's dominations of each other" therefore bring attention to affinities rather than essences
- Identities destabilize as their opposites are deconstructed (orient/occident)
 - Women's non-innocence of dominations
- Consciousness (of identity and location) are achievement and not a natural fact <<< construction and epistemologies
- Subjectivity of postmodern identity rather than objectivity, based on history and a changing world order where the network of connections between people are multiple and complex 
- Polyvocality
- Feminized labour: made vulnerable and exploited 
- Cross-gender, cross-race alliances for survival, new webs of power = new coalitions 
- Changes in world order largely impacted by post-war arms race (human components adapted in cultural machinery towards this purpose?? political economical landscape??)
- Adapt and reconstruct to survive using the tools which marked you as other
- "Recognize oneself as fully implicated in the world"
- Reciprocity, shaping. We make and we are made. In terms of the world network and biotics and stuff. Cyborg.
- Prosthetics. Having social prostheses and containing externalities in our reality
- The machine is us - nuclear weapons and war machinery: not independent objects but in tandem with us and our embodiments