An entire cyberworld. Which is a good reason to become a cyberfeminist. Cyber words are power words. The power to steer, to be at the helm, to drive on the superhighway is a power still largely in the hands of the powerful, the moneyed, the white and male, and the culture being produced reflects the concerns of this group. It influences our sense of place and the way in which we see and use our bodies.
Bodies are, as they say in the postmodern jargon, an important discursive site, an interface.
Cyborg and virtual bodies interface with machines or a virtual space, or as Donna Haraway puts it, the interface of automaton and autonomy . Women s bodies, in cyborg and virtual form, are being regressively redefined through cyberculture, and it s this that as a cyberfeminist I want to challenge. The postmodern body of cyberculture ranges from the meat and wetware metaphors to glimmering virtual surfaces without weight or mass. And, I could add, without heart. Much of the language surrounding these bodies is a language of transgression, disruption, hybridity.