postmodernism - cyborgs

The long dreamt of metalization of the human body

3NT — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:31:11 +0000

What do you think Haraway et al. would make of this: http://www.communistrobot.com/viewblog.php?id=591?

bare life = blank surface = Muselmann?

morefuntocompute — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:32:33 +0000

Another idea I'd love to hear thoughts on is the connection between the condition of being as bare life and as Harraway's "blank surface" for inscription by power. In both cases, I read the situation as one in which a medium of separation between power and the rawest existence of human life seems to have been displaced.

Rhizomes and cyborgs

capt haddock — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:46:04 +0000

I've noticed several posts wondering where rhizome theory leaves the individual, or at least where exactly this theory manifests itself in "real world."

In the same way that the Haraway essay answered a lot of my questions about what it means to be an individual agent in postmodernity--how agency and the atomizations etc., of postmodernity are fully compatible and not mutually exclusive--I think that essay has a similar clarifying potential for what a rhizomatic person might look like: a cyborg.