http://withextracheese.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/cyborg/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:39:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://withextracheese.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/cyborg/#comment-7 zoe Wed, 28 May 2008 06:58:29 +0000 http://withextracheese.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-7 It's interesting that we view the internet as a place where we can recreate ourselves into a 'new machinic subjectivity.' This idea only extends so far, as it is so difficult to escape the hierarchies that define us under patriarchal capitalism. Even being a 'cyborg' (ie. having access to new technologies that operate as extensions of the self) is hierarchical. Perhaps we should question the need to theorize in terms of new technologies when there is still a large portion of the world that haven't become 'cyborgs'.. It’s interesting that we view the internet as a place where we can recreate ourselves into a ‘new machinic subjectivity.’ This idea only extends so far, as it is so difficult to escape the hierarchies that define us under patriarchal capitalism. Even being a ‘cyborg’ (ie. having access to new technologies that operate as extensions of the self) is hierarchical. Perhaps we should question the need to theorize in terms of new technologies when there is still a large portion of the world that haven’t become ‘cyborgs’..

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