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Kultur uns Next Nature - What is a Cyborg? - Coggle Diagram
Kultur uns Next Nature - What is a Cyborg?
Amber Case: Wir sind heute alle Cyborgs
People are cyborgs everytime they look at a computer screen or use one of their mobile devices
Cyborg: “ an organism “to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to new environments” (e.g. astronauts, being able to climb high, swim in the deep ocean)
Cyborg anthropologists; the usage of tools has been a physical modification of self, has helped us to extend our physical selves
What er are looking at now is an extension of our mental self; losing it makes it feel like something is missing, a strange emotion and feeling, without being able to see it
Second self
on the internet; maintaining the second self, presentation of self in digital life similarly to analog life; going through two adolescences
Shortest way between two point: technosocial wormholes; time and space compression; simultaneous time; panic architecture --> ambient intimacy --> effects: no time for self reflection
Technology is helping us to be more human by connecting with each other
Josie Ellen. On Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto
Definition cyborg
: human and machine hybrid, humans are becoming cyborgs by the end of the late 20th century
Breaking down 3 boundaries
Between human beings and animals
(believing animals have equal rights to humans, what separates us from them?)
Between organisms and machines
(cyborgs as caricatures not copies of humans, who will cyborgs become?)
Between the physical and non-physical
(non-physical as a sort of energy, sunlight entity that we can see but cannot touch; cyborgs can be dangerous because they are invisible and it is harder for use to conceptualize them
--> establishing a new though that
not everything is a binary and not always an us-versus-them
Two perspectives of a cyborg world
Military driven, apocalyptic, masculine warzone that is negative and sees
cyborgs as the enemy
and humans are being vanquished completely; main trouble with cyborgs: the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism and state socialism
No longer any known boundaries between genders or species,
humans being able to work also in harmony with animals and machine
--> neither one of these perspectives is really to but in order to really find the truth, you have to look at both, looking only at one with blindside you
Cyborg being described as a monster but it is rather something that is so different from society, an innocent thing that has to adapt to our world
Fractured identities: you never belong to just one thing, you are categorized in many different ways;
what really makes these labels? (female, male eg.) Where does our body stop?/ how is humanity categorized?
Cyborgs are seen as regeneration rather that rebirth
; cyborgs need to be able to write and really communicate