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This week we learn about cyborgs.
this weekend, we learned about cyborgs.
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism (i.e., an organism that has both artificial and natural systems).
The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space. D. S. Halacy's Cyborg: Evolution of the Superman in 1965 featured an introduction by Manfred Clynes, who wrote of a "new frontier" that was "not merely space, but more profoundly the relationship between 'inner space' to 'outer space' -a bridge...between mind and matter." The cyborg is often seen today merely as an organism that has enhanced abilities due to technology, but this perhaps oversimplifies the category of feedback.
and haraway is said that by the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.
haraway is professor of the history of consciousness, UCSC. and assitant professor of the history of science, johns hopkins university. he is irish american and raised catholic.
and, we learned about biopolitics.
biopolitics carried out through the means, the techniques and technologies of health and illness,
statistics, the census, epidemiology and demography, the science of race, eugenics, population,
abortion, genomics, and new reprodutive technologies.
chimera is an animal of mixtures and fusions.
chimera is define to this.
Mythology - a fabled fire-breathing monster of greek mythology, with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail (or according to others with the heads of a lion, a goat, and a serpent), killed by Bellerophon.
painting, archicture - a grotesque monster, formed of the parts of various animals.
literature - an unreal creature of the imagination.