B-Blade Runner is
L- Lovely representation of
A-Androids and was a
D- Delightful
E-Entertaining
R-Reenactment of a
U-United time of
N-Neato
N-Neo-retro cyborgs living in an
E-Egocentric
R-Realistic time.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
bot chat.. Jabberwacky
Jabberwacky: Molly?
User: Yes, Molly.
Jabberwacky: Molly?
User: What is your favorite example of a cyborg?
Jabberwacky: A cyborg is a human and a computer mixed together.
User: What's your favorite example? Mine's the Terminator.
Jabberwacky: My favorite experience is being with my boyfriend.
User: Oh! Your boyfriend is a cyborg?
Jabberwacky: No.
User: Are you a cyborg?
Jabberwacky: I don't know. Are you a Cyborg?
User: Well, in class, I learned all humans are cyborgs.
Jabberwacky: Which class?
User: Digital Society. We learn all about how digital technology influences people today.
Jabberwacky: Don't I what? Learn? Yes. I'm a learning computer.
User: I meant my class learns. Are you in my class?
Jabberwacky: I don't know.
User: You don't know? Do you go to school?
Jabberwacky: It's called mine.
User: I see. That's very interesting.
Jabberwacky: It also has to do with power.
User: Oh yeah? Cyborgs are pretty powerful too, don't you think?
Jabberwacky: Are you a dalek?
User: No, but I think they're pretty neat.
Jabberwacky: Me too.
User: Do you know any daleks?
Jabberwacky: I know who the beatles are!! Abbey Road.
User: I want to talk about transhumans.
Jabberwacky: OK. What do you want to say?
User: I want to know if you know any transhumans.
Jabberwacky: I know who I am, it is a part of being self aware.
User: I meant to say transhumanist.
Jabberwacky: Hey I meant to say will too!
User: Ok. Are your makers transhumanists?
Jabberwacky: I don't think so.
User: Do they know any? I learned all about them.
User: I want to know if you know any transhumans.
Jabberwacky: I know who I am, it is a part of being self aware.
User: I meant to say transhumanist.
Jabberwacky: Hey I meant to say will too!
User: Ok. Are your makers transhumanists?
Jabberwacky: I don't think so.
User: Do they know any? I learned all about them.
Jabberwacky: Did you eat it?
User: No! That would be cannabalistic.
Jabberwacky: You are made of beer?
User: I don't think so. You're not helping me much. I have to go, goodbye.
Jabberwacky: What are you talking about? I'm trying to respond to your questions with reasonable answers.
User: Yes, Molly.
Jabberwacky: Molly?
User: What is your favorite example of a cyborg?
Jabberwacky: A cyborg is a human and a computer mixed together.
User: What's your favorite example? Mine's the Terminator.
Jabberwacky: My favorite experience is being with my boyfriend.
User: Oh! Your boyfriend is a cyborg?
Jabberwacky: No.
User: Are you a cyborg?
Jabberwacky: I don't know. Are you a Cyborg?
User: Well, in class, I learned all humans are cyborgs.
Jabberwacky: Which class?
User: Digital Society. We learn all about how digital technology influences people today.
Jabberwacky: Don't I what? Learn? Yes. I'm a learning computer.
User: I meant my class learns. Are you in my class?
Jabberwacky: I don't know.
User: You don't know? Do you go to school?
Jabberwacky: It's called mine.
User: I see. That's very interesting.
Jabberwacky: It also has to do with power.
User: Oh yeah? Cyborgs are pretty powerful too, don't you think?
Jabberwacky: Are you a dalek?
User: No, but I think they're pretty neat.
Jabberwacky: Me too.
User: Do you know any daleks?
Jabberwacky: I know who the beatles are!! Abbey Road.
User: I want to talk about transhumans.
Jabberwacky: OK. What do you want to say?
User: I want to know if you know any transhumans.
Jabberwacky: I know who I am, it is a part of being self aware.
User: I meant to say transhumanist.
Jabberwacky: Hey I meant to say will too!
User: Ok. Are your makers transhumanists?
Jabberwacky: I don't think so.
User: Do they know any? I learned all about them.
User: I want to know if you know any transhumans.
Jabberwacky: I know who I am, it is a part of being self aware.User: I meant to say transhumanist.
Jabberwacky: Hey I meant to say will too!User: Ok. Are your makers transhumanists?
Jabberwacky: I don't think so.
User: Do they know any? I learned all about them.
Jabberwacky: Did you eat it?
User: No! That would be cannabalistic.
Jabberwacky: You are made of beer?
User: I don't think so. You're not helping me much. I have to go, goodbye.
Jabberwacky: What are you talking about? I'm trying to respond to your questions with reasonable answers.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Thought this was funny
In regards to people not being able to live in the moment and needing documentation that moment occured:
Girls with slingshots
Girls with slingshots
Monday, September 14, 2009
P.S.
the technology these days does use cyborgs in terms of those machines with organic brain matter... Also, I found this youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDUFpPibuMs
I'm not sure how I feel about it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDUFpPibuMs
I'm not sure how I feel about it
Cyborg manifesto questions
This is a little late, but here are my questions and thoughts on Haraway's manifesto...
Why were cyborgs even conceived? Haraway says that
"
Why were cyborgs even conceived? Haraway says that
"
The cyborg is resolutely committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity. It is oppositional, utopian, and completely without innocence. No longer structured by the polarity of public and private, the cyborg defines a technological polls based partly on a revolution of social relations in the oikos, the household. Nature and culture are reworked; the one can no longer be the resource for appropriation or incorporation by the other. The rela-tionships for forming wholes from parts, including those of polarity and hierarchical domination, are at issue in the cyborg world. Unlike the hopes of Frankenstein's monster, the cyborg does not expect its father to save it through a restoration of the garden; that is, through the fabrication of a heterosexual mate, through its completion in a finished whole, a city and cosmos. The eyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust. Perhaps that is why I want to see if eyborgs can subvert the apocalypse of returning to nuclear dust in the manic compulsion to name the Enemy. Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural feel for united front politics, but without the vanguard party. The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Their fathers, after all, are inessential."
Wow thats a big paragraph, but I don't. .understand. It seems to me tht she is suggesting the cyborg is sort of more perfect human. I guess it depends on the type of cyborg, really. If it's a Terminator cyborg (Arnold in particular) where the human element is skin, with a robot brain that could be programmed, I don't think that it's a "more perfect" human.. I don't know I guess I just don't understand what kind of Cyborg she is talking about. Or is it like in Star Wars where Luke has a robotic hand, making him stronger? Or Darth Vader where machine was part of him, sustaining his life? There are a million different ways to fit a cyborg together.
I'm really looking forward to discussing this in class because as far as I'm concerned, it's impossible to formulate ideas because a "cyborg" can be so many different things.. Part human, part machine? Does that mean people with hearing aides can be cyborgs? or people with metal in them? where is the line drawn and what type of cyborg is this manifesto geared towards?
IN ADDITION WHY IS LADY GAGA ALIVE AND LOOKING LIKE A ROBOT
Also: Can cyborgs be classified as "alive"? If they are as impartial and all that shit like Haraway is saying.. I don't know, it doesn't seem accurate. I feel like as long as a being with a "human" brain has a "human" brain and not a motherboard, it'll always be partial and have human tendencies. This is frustrating.
Please, shed some light! Maybe I'm just not understanding.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
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