This space is like a scrapbook to collect an assortment of notes, images and quotes to do with the readings on digital cultures, a module I am currently doing on MSc in E-learning (Uni of Edinburgh).
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'Perambulation stimulates the imagination'
(William Boyd).
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.
From Cyborg Manifesto by D. Haraway (1991)
The four descriptions of the cyborg cannot be analysed in isolation. They are co-determinate, penetrate each other and expanding the perspective to look from at the cyborg. The boundary between the social reality and the fiction is ‘an optical illusion’. The cyborgs are already amongst us. Haraway proclaims: We are cyborgs and the cyborg is our ontology, it gives us our politcs. She argues that the cyborg will transform what counts as women’s experience.
