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Christiane Peschek was born in 1984, less than a year before Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto was published. It’s a loose coincidence that might have gone unobserved if it wasn’t for the emergency cardiac surgery Peschek underwent a few months ago. Waking up with an ICD implant in her chest to regulate her heartbeat, Peschek realised that she was now the epitome of the chimera that Haraway had imagined, a fabricated hybrid of machine and organism—in short, a cyborg.

In Haraway’s text, the cyborg is a symbol of liberation, a chance to counter the binary thinking—nature/culture, man/woman, …