Let me get this right ....
The title of this list is transacademic ...
Therefore it must suggest some 'specialist' rather than 'populist'
understanding of concepts ...
Has anyone heard of Donna Harraway??
If I were to say that what Harraway means by the term "Cyborg" (in the
context of Cultural Studies -- you know that thing which grew from trying
to understand the oppressions of identity in 70-80s Britain, Birmingham
school, Stuart Hall and all that) is that the very nature of humanness is
cyborg would it mean anything?? Not individual people, not prosthetic
enhancement for what ever reason or in whatever field (a car can be
considered a prosthetic enhancement because it expands the range of our
legs) but to define the term human is to also define the technology which
we use to create the world around us (or is that phrase too Marxist??)
Aah ... What's the point ...?? Ignorance wins every time
C'mon all you "Arnies", C'mon shoot me down in 'flames'
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