Chela Sandoval "New Sciences" In The Cyborg Handbook; edited by Chris Hables Gray, Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera, and Steven Mentor; New York: Routledge, 1995 (pp. 407-22) In this article, Sandoval replies to Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto (which complemented her own theoretical work) and explores the relationship between the cyborg and other forms of cultural resistance. Sandoval situates cyborg consciousness as a contemporary form of 'oppositional consciousness,' a practice and subjectivity which has existed amidst the colonized and working classes for centuries: "My argument has been that colonized peoples of the Americas have already developed cyborg skills required for survival under techno-human conditions." More specifically, Sandoval characterizes cyborg consciousness as a form of 'U.S. third world feminism,' and describes it as 'flexible, mobile, diasporic, schizophrenic, and nomadic.' In her attempt to cross disciplines and theoretical domains in the academy, she further alligns the cyborg with other oppositional consciousness such as the mestiza, feminist criticism, postcolonial discourse theory, postmodernism, and Queer theory. In this way, Sandoval rereads Haraway with her own political agenda, constructing cyborg and oppositional affinity groups across disciplines in a differential network. L.E. Fazen