cyborg is an augmented human being, part biological, part technological. the idea of a cyborg was to a great depth used and explored in “the cyborg manifesto” by donna haraway a cyber feminist and post-modern philosopher. she uses the idea of cyborg to allow us to think of humans without any concept of “human nature” revealing that we are all cyborgs in a sense that we are all constructed of different parts, organic and mechanic, natural and non-natural. one of the core ideas of haraway’s theory is that it embraces the breakdown between human and nature, it accepts that humans were continently produced. while another core idea of haraway’s theory is that she acknowledges another breakdown, the one between human and technology.
we are all cyborgs, as far we understand ourselves as ones, and there is no question of returning to some kind of mythical “human nature”, the “innocence” because those things were always illusions since the technological embodiment is a process that had been going for a very long time. a good example being something as trivial as wearing a pair of glasses which is already an enhancement of a human being with some kind of technology, which is only accelerating now with new inventions.
we are all cyborgs, as far we understand ourselves as ones, and there is no question of returning to some kind of mythical “human nature”, the “innocence” because those things were always illusions since the technological embodiment is a process that had been going for a very long time. a good example being something as trivial as wearing a pair of glasses which is already an enhancement of a human being with some kind of technology, which is only accelerating now with new inventions.
cyberpunk
2020
