An experiment in hypertextual relationships by Karla Tonella that explores
the common ground between Cyorgs, Gender, LesBiGay, Dispora, La Frontera,
Border Incidents and Other Borders.
Diane Grecko's hypertext book "explores the significance of the cyborg
in 20th century wriging from Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson to Haraway
and Derrida."
"The machine has extended the body of the mother for centuries as
she tended the stove, cranked the washer, peddled the sewing machine, and
vacuumed the house, but she hardly exists in discussions of technological
culture, except as a consumning unit for manufacturing and advertising or
in the case of reproductive technologies -- the body that carries the baby."
--Pattie Belle Hastings (requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader)
Marie Ringler produced this good collection of cyborg related links in
these categories: theory, art, technological developments, miscellaneous,
and fun.
"[T]he cyborg is an inevitable consequence of human technics. " An essay,
which is part of a larger "Tutorial in Biogenetic Stucturalism" by Charlie
Laughlin (see below).
Frank Biocca, Media Interface and Network Design (M.I.N.D.) Lab, Michigan
State University "How does the changing representation of the body
in virtual environments affect the mind?" From the Journal of Computer
Mediated Communication, September, 1997.
"I would like to examine one particular image of our postmodern
world -- that of the cyborg and how it is used to question and even redefine
our notions of masculine and feminine in the recent works of Marge Piercy
and Joan Slonczewski." --Barbara Summerhawk
Lucy Tatman, European Journal of Women's Studies: Feb. 2003,
10:1 - available to U. Iowa people electronically.
May be available to other university libraries via EBSCOhost. "…This
article explores the possibility that Haraway's cyborg is a saviour-figure,
made partially in the image of a transcendent God. It suggests that cyborgs
do have an origin story, and that their story is inseparably linked to
the theological development of Heilsgeschichte, or salvation history, which
is itself linked, arguably, to the technological developments of the Industrial
Revolution…"
"MUD characters are much more than a few bytes of computer data--they
are cyborgs, a manifestation of the self beyond the realms of the physical,
existing in a space where identity is self-defined rather than pre-ordained."
-- Elizabeth Reid
"Dedicated to the putative future process of copying one's mind from the
natural substrate of the brain into an artificial one, manufactured by humans.
This technology will radically alter society in many ways, as science fiction
authors have begun to illustrate. Through this server, explore the science
behind the science fiction!"
The history of prosthetics and amputation surgery begins at the very dawning
of human medical thought. Its historical twists and turns parallel the development
of medical science, culture, and civilization itself.
Erik Davis in Cybersociology #7 "In this selected piece, Erik
Davis examines the theme of the 'spiritual cyborg' with particular attention
to two contemporary spiritual movements, i.e. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way and
Ron Hubbard's Scientology."
"This is the official site for the Australian-based performance artist,
Stelarc, whose work explores and extends the concept of the body and its
relationship with technology through human/machine interfaces incorporating
the Internet and Web, sound, music, video and computers."
John R. R. Christie Configurations, 1993, 1.1:171-196. "This
… adopts strategies whose overall effect is to extend the relays of
cyborg imagery well beyond those postulated in the "Manifesto," in order
to recognize the cultural and political complexity of cyborg semiosis,
and to grasp the aporias that such extension produces for Haraway's writing."
