What does /lit/ think of Donna Haraway and the Cyborg Manife

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What does /lit/ think of Donna Haraway and the Cyborg Manifesto?
Are we all cyborgs in the post-modern sense?

From Wikipedia: Haraway's cyborg theory rejects the notions of essentialism, proposing instead a chimeric, monstrous world of fusions between animal and machine. Cyborg theory relies on writing as "the technology of cyborgs," and asserts that "cyborg politics is the struggle for language and the struggle against perfect communication, against the one code that translates all meaning perfectly, the central dogma of phallogocentrism." Instead, Haraway’s cyborg calls for a non-essentialized, material-semiotic metaphor capable of uniting diffuse political coalitions along the lines of affinity rather than identity. Following Lacanian feminists such as Luce Irigaray, Haraway’s work addresses the chasm between feminist discourses and the dominant language of Western patriarchy. As Haraway explains, “grammar is politics by other means,” and effective politics require speaking in the language of domination."

Cyborg Manifesto PDF:
http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Haraway-CyborgManifesto-1.pdf

Donna Haraway Reads The National Geographic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLN2ToEIlwM