In the 1980's, Donna Haraway wrote The Cyborg Manifesto, which shook several disciplines within the study of the humanities. To Haraway, advancing technology eroded the strict boundaries set in place to describe humans. She says,

The cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality, the two joined centers structuring any possibility of historical transformation... (7)

Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves. (67)

When the cyborg occupies both the space of fully human in its creation and non-human in its artificiality, in the media and texts we can analyze the cyborgs position and signification.