Terminator Agonistes (2ndtry)
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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How can we help students understand the contested identity of the cyborg in the public sphere?
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The cyborg was not less human, but more.
He criticized the idea of creating human-ready environments up in space, arguing humans should adapt themselves to extraterrestrial conditions, whatever those might be
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Monster, Superhero
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both...or neither
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loss, gain, pain, and power
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Donna Haraway: non-originary feminist myth
Amber Case: anthropological construct
Both: Nature is being reinvented
Malkin: A social cautionary tale of lost connections and family values
"Up until Amber Case's thought-provoking TEDTalk, the whole idea of cyborgs falling in love might have seemed like the premise for an outrageous science fiction story. You know -- the kind with cheesy cover art, depicting a fetching, scantily clad fem-bot, draped around a beefy, steely-eyed hero."
When we talk about our cyborg self, then, what we're really describing is the as yet crude admixture that emerges from the blend of human needs, desires, motivations, and perceptions and the projected self we know through cyberspace. The second self isn't at all the same as the human self, precisely because who we are is limited and shaped by the cyberspace in which it dwells.
Student Views
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Even students who were interested in it enough to write a textual analysis of it struggled with the idea that Haraway’s cyborg was not an entirely negative proposal. --Sara Santos, WRT 102 instructor
MY ASSIGNMENT: Think about the definition of cyborg that these speakers/writers are forwarding. How do they differ? How are they similar? Malkin’s op-ed is a direct response to Case’s TED talk about wormholes and he also invokes Turkle’s work that is summarized in her TED talk. How does he shape or alter their words to his own views? Do you reject the idea that you are a cyborg, an argument that Case forwards? Do you agree with Malkin that the cyborg is a “crudely pixelated” version of the whole human self, or do you have a different idea?
Refer to specific passages, scenes, images in the videos or passages in the article to support your points. You can also refer to other texts, movies, stories in the news, etc., but do not neglect the materials assigned.
"When we’re away from our loved ones, we still strive to keep in touch due to the fact that we are so immersed in technology that enables us to do so with extreme ease. In my opinion, the aforementioned arguments clearly prove that humans will always be humans, not cyborgs and no, cyborgs cannot fall in love, humans can."
"To love someone means knowing him or her – to know that person’s strengths, weaknesses, and flaws. To love someone means accepting imperfections and making yourself vulnerable – concepts that are completely contradictory to the rules followed by our cyber selves. To love someone means knowing the human them, and letting them see the human you."
"I think that calling humans cyborgs is a major generalization. Although it is somewhat relatable, I believe that there are other factors, like human emotions that no human can deny - despite the influence of technology - which help avoid the classification of humans as cyborgs. Cyborgs are not meant to feel. Humans do."
"It seems like the discussion of cyborgs in the time since 1960, echoing the discussion of robotics, bounced between news of DARPA and DARPA-like Sci-fi projects none of us will ever really see and Critiques on how We’d All Been Cyborgs, Really, Since We First Picked Up Sticks. I want a middle ground. I want to say there are inflection points where the scale of things changes the nature of what they do."--Quinn Norton, "50 Posts About Cyborgs"
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Bill Nye reveals the science of racism:
"We are all the same from a scientific standpoint."
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There is tribalism, and the argument that we are all “the same” rests on our humanity. The power of humanity as a unifying construct is undeniable. This is part of the difficulty of finding cyborg a positive construction for identity. The less human the cyborg is, the more truly different it is.
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Are you a cyborg? Why or why not?
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