Simulacra in Silk: Haraway’s Cyborg, Performative “Femininity”, and the Aesthetics of the Automaton on the Margiela Runway This article reimagines the representation of “female” robots through the lens of fashion, exploring how the female-coded machine moves from fantasy object to theoretical agent. Anchoring the discu...

The full article: "Simulacra in Silk: Haraway’s Cyborg, Performative ‘Femininity’, and the Aesthetics of the Automaton on the Margiela Runway,” from Fashion Theory (2026) is here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #DonnaHaraway #CyborgTheory #JudithButler #Baudrillard #Margiela #JohnGalliano

#QuoteoftheDay:
“We are no longer merely treating machines and objects as humans ( #anthropomorphism) but treating humans as machines: expecting ourselves to be optimizable, upgradable, and augmentable ( #mechanomorphism).”
#RogerSpitz #CyborgTheory #BioMechanics