Harraway's piece once again put something I have very little familiarity with and didn't think was really at all relevant to discussing new media into a totally new perspective. Just as with Marxist though, I didn't really understand how it could be related until we got to issues of copyright and sharing information with hypertext. Honestly, I felt very lost very many times in the piece. Harraway is writing with an intimate knowledge of many thinkers of whom I am ignorant. That said, I will comment on a few ideas. With the dawn of a conscious fabrication of parts of our biological nature, older ideas that dictate gender constructs seem to become less important. I thought that Harraway saw in this new phenomenon a deliverance from what she saw to be 'dominating' and damaging concepts of gender that were based on superiority. Honestly it's difficult for me to get any further in than that without confusing myself.
Guattari's piece I found to be even more dense. His expansion of 'machines' beyond materialistic things, which encompasses systems and phenomena, I thought to be interesting. This could lay the ground for describing viral media and memes, and perhaps solving Baudrillard's issues with describing the "exchange of signs" so as to incorporate it within (or see it disprove) a marxist framework for communication. His statement that machines rejected notions of structure was a little confusing to me; perhaps I didn't read it right. It followed an allusion to structuralism, with which I'm not familiar.