Our Cyborgian Orchard

Felipe Mammoli and Madhuri Karak

This short feature was a contribution to the Cyborganisms issue of the Rooted Futures Lab zine Glitch.

An excerpt:

In A Cyborg Manifesto (1985) Donna Haraway argues that we are already cyborgs, our identities molded by interactions with technology, media, and social systems.1 If maps - representations of the living created by machines in the sky - were always cyborgian, there is a vital element inevitably left in-visible.

Even the most detailed maps of forest ecosystems, their carbon stock, and canopy height tell us little about resident Indigenous and Local Communities’ relationships of care and stewardship with their landscapes. In Our Cyborgian Orchard a speculative data layer attempts to fill in this gap.

  1. Haraway, Donna J (1991). "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century". Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge. ↩︎︎