This essay uses the demise of the cyborg candidate to challenge faith in social constructionism without an examination of how authenticity sows meaning.  I begin by revisiting the cyborg as an entry point to feminist social science, drawing a connection to Kamala Harris as the cyborg’s political manifestation, and placing both in an epistemic context defined by algorithmic logic.  In part 2, I propose the node as a theoretical successor to the cyborg, however representative of a new way of thinking that I call matrix thinking. (read more...)