Just a little of the irony

What does Harraway mean by an ironic dream? I suppose the most obvious irony is the fact that she has to struggle with the use the language of binaries to undermine the language of binaries. Her dream is also ironic, at least in part I think, because it realizes the only “common language” available to the cyborg is no language at all. “Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves, a section of a spectrum, and these machines are eminently portable, mobile […] People are nowhere near so fluid, being both material and opaque. Cyborgs are ether, quintessence” (5). Such a “fluid” world, it seems, would be bound only by swirling, energetic particles, with no need to communicate other than with a momentary passing of energy, one to the other. Yet, that too is ironic, because a momentary passing of energy would automatically equate to a “common language.”