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In addition, we might ask about those ethical calls of the
future from "beings" that we cannot now even imagine,
ethical calls that Donna Haraway categorizes under the
heading of the "cyborg [which] appears in myth precisely
where the boundary between human and animal is
transgressed."^37^ Certainly, the historical and
theoretical similarities that Haraway draws among the
discourses surrounding her title subjects, _Simians,
Cyborgs, and Women_, should force us to ask after and hold
open categories that have not been yet recognized as
ethically compelling.^38^ As Judith Butler maintains in
her work on performative identity, "the construction of the
human is a differential operation that produces the more
and the less 'human,' the inhuman, the humanly unthinkable.
These excluded sites come to bound the 'human' as its
constitutive outside, and to haunt those boundaries as the
persistent possibility of their disruption and
rearticulation.