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This week has been about cyborgs. There have been cyborgs everywhere. Once I was able to cut through the visual imagery of the Terminator and Bladerunner, I found it much easier to think ‘cyborg’. Haraway (2000) and Hayles (1999, 2006) seem both to be saying that the cyborg can be used to think in new ways. [...] Instead of being this – Plato’s androgyne – his metaphor for love in which we are bifurcated beings, constantly looking for our literal ‘other half’ in order to gain the illusive ‘wholeness’ of self, according to Haraway, we become this : a multitude identities, the possession of which causes no conflict as we no longer pine [...] |
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