Maybe here she is referencing how culture/society tries to base itself around nature. People often argue for or against things with the arguments "it's natural so it's good" or "it's unnatural so it's bad." When "nature and culture are reworked", maybe nature will no longer be appropriated in this way(?)

This is another way in which Haraway talks about the cyborg as breaking down binaries.

It's interesting that she says both "utopian" and "without innocence". Throughout this essay she uses the cyborg as a utopian concept, but when she says that it's "without innocence" she's acknowledging that it's not necessarily pure, and it has a history of being used by the patriarchal and colonist systems she envisions it going against in the "utopia." This sentence hilights that contradiction.

I was interested in the context/origin of this word, because I thought there must be a reason why she's using the word "oikos" instead of just saying household. It's a biblical word—according to biblestudytools.com, one definition says, "the inmates of a house, all the persons forming one family, a household. The family of God, of the Christian Church, of the church of the Old and New Testaments". This continues her religious thread throughout the essay.

In the interview, Haraway says,

"my resistance to psychoanalysis is very much like my resistance to the Church. I really think I've been vaccinated. Precisely because of understanding the power of a truly totalizing dogma that can include all stories, and my sense that the psychoanalytic narratives as they have been developed in the human sciences and in feminism, have a potential that I recognize with my vaccinated soul..."

I am not sure what she means by "vaccinated" in the above quote, but based on her comparison of psychoanalysis to religion, it seems like her resistance to psychoanalysis is similar to her resistance to goddess feminism. She ends this essay saying "I'd rather be a cyborg than a goddess," which asserts that cyborgs have nothing to do with religion or spirituality. Here, she is saying that cyborgs in the utopia she envisions have nothing to do with psychoanalysis, especially Freud's. "The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world," so any psychoanalysis that reinforces gender stereotypes is redundant.

I'm confused

"Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a series of protest camps established to protest nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England." (Wikipedia)

What does this mean??? Why "pickup trucks across Europe"?? Am I missing a reference?

Here's "utopian" again. What's she meaning when she says utopian?

What does she mean by "utopian" in this sentence/context?

Reagan's star wars, right?

What types of practices is she referring to?

"an organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues, formed by processes such as fusion of early embryos, grafting, or mutation." (Oxford) But interestingly, the first definition given was "(in Greek mythology) a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail." (Oxford). Interesting that the monster is specified to be female. Was this double meaning used on purpose?

Never heard this word so I looked it up - "the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief." (Oxford dictionary)