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Introduction
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Cyborg
Cybernetic organism
cybernetic: kybernetes = helmsman self-controlled-system based on feedback loops (Murphie&Potts) the study of "control and communication in the animal and the machine
(Wiener 1948. In: Encyclopedia of Technology, Science and Ethics 2005: 455).
Cyborg
Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline (1960: 29) Alter body functions to adapt to extraterrestrial environment instead of creating earthly environment in space
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Donna Haraway
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Cyborg
free of gender categories Crosses boarder between physical, visible world and non-physical, invisible world metaphor and social reality
replacing organic functions with engineered ones (optimization of life (Murphie and Potts: 117)) line between fictional cyborgs and reality blurred pursued
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Human
Human-technology interaction
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the more the body can deal/interact with different environments, the more powerful it is relies on technology
morals
relationships
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Human-technology interaction
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Stelarc
Ear on arm (2007)
modification of the body replica of own ear with living cells transmits the sound it hears
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Science
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Sciene (fiction)
David Hanson
Human-like robots with realistic facial expressions and conversational abilities
Human-technology interaction
Or: we lose our humanness
Nicholas Carr 2010:207
Discussion
To get the most out of these incredibly powerful communication and information technologies we have at our disposal today, one of the most important things we have to learn and develop, is the skill in turning those technologies off
Nicholas Carr 2011
The mental and physical enhancement of the body through technolgy has to be pursued.
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Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
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Sources
Carr, Nicholas 2010. The Shallows: what the internet is doing to our brains, New York & London: W.W. Norton& Company. (A thing like me, pp.201-222). Carr, Nicholas 2011. The dark side of the information revolution (video). http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/ [9.5.2012]. Case, Amber 2011. We are all cyborgs now (talk on TED.com). http://blog.ted.com/2011/01/11/we-are-all-cyborgs-now-amber-case-on-tedcom/ [10.5.2012]. Clark, Andy. The Third Culture. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/clark/clark_index.html[10.5.2012]. Clynes, M.E. and Kline, N. 1960. Cyborgs and Space. http://www.scribd.com/doc/2962194/Cyborgs-and-Space-Clynes-Kline [9.5.2012]. Gray, Chris Hables, Steven Mentor, and Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera(1995), Cyborgology: Constructing the Knowledge of Cybernetic Organisms. In: The Cyborg Handbook, New York: Routledge, pp. 1-14.
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[...] we are on the verge of becoming absolutely one with machines [...] it is just a matter of technical competence [...] and this is just a matter of time
Sources
Murphie, Andrew and Potts, John (2003), Culture and technology, Basingstoke: Palgrave,Chapter 5: Cyborgs: the body, information and technology, pp.115-141. Stelarc (1980-2012). http://stelarc.org/?catID=20316 [9.5.2012].
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