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Cyborg?
I have just read the text by Shields (2006). The content about cyborgs was interesting. He seems to questioning the human representation of the cyborg, preferring “a virus, a ‘mote’ or ‘crumb’”. The mote and the crumb do not make sense to me, but I am quite taken with re-forming the cyborg as a [...]
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 [...] Does reliance on assistive software make us a cyborg? Is the use of distributed cognition, via this reliance, an example of ‘cyborgness’? If this is the case then if when school children or students are allowed to take calculators into exams, and rely on this technology in order to answer the questions (that is, they [...] (Wikipedia, Nov 12th, 09 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexivity_(social_theory): Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things can be said to touch on the issue of Reflexivity. Foucault examines the history of western thought since the Renaissance and argues that each historical epoch (he identifies 3, while proposing a 4th) has an episteme, or “a historical a priori“, that structures and organizes [...] Some thoughts on Hayles (1999). It seems that being posthuman is a state of mind – a subjectivity. It is a multitude of subjectivities which we draw upon in different contexts. And here are the some – I know they are images of Justice, but for me, they are women analysing and weighing things up : This week has taken me into the orality vs literacy debate – the debate that posits that literacy enables higher levels of thought than orality. This brings me to this, the video you may have just watched. If you go to 1.58 mins in, you’ll get to a great quote describing the the character Medb ‘a corrupted and corrupting [...] Kress’s (2005) quote, above, referring to how we are engaging differently with media made me think of this:
which made me think of this: Marey’s Chronograms. Dr Nathan passed the illustration across his desk to Margaret Travis. ‘Marey’s Chronograms are multiple-exposure photographs in which the element of time is visible – the walking human figure, for example, [...] |
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