A GLANCE INTOCYBORGISM

CHRISTY LARSON

ENGL 483

DR. BOYLE

02 DECEMBER 2014

DONNA HARAWAY – THE CYBORG• “A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature

from fiction.”

• Taking Haraway’s definition of the cyborg and applying it to those who have

prosthetic limbs. Focusing on how the cyborg phenomenon is changing human

perspective by looking through a machine’s eyes.

MACHINE VISION – THE CYBORG’S

PERSPECTIVE• Becoming a cyborg and ultimately separating

from the “human” world.

• Negatives and Positives

• Different reality for those that now have a more

intimate relationship with machines.

• Machines wanting to be human? Again?

• Prosthetics such as cybernetic eyes, hands, and

feet.

HUMANOID ROBOTS: ASIMO

• The world’s most

advanced humanoid robot

created by Honda.

• Phobia - Machine take

over?

• Machine vision.

TRACKING THEORY - THE SYNTHETIC PHILOSOPHY OF

THE GLANCE : BY ERIC FADEN

How a person’s perspective

changes in accordance to their

involvement with machines.

We “leave our bodies and see

the world through a machine’s

viewpoint”.

WHAT ELSE?

• Are there any specific types of prosthetics that I should add that seem

interesting?

• Any particular research that would support my theory?