One day we will have millions of hybrid entities that have a foot in both worlds at once. A scientist, tracing the wiring circuits of that machine to locate its humanness, would be like our own earnest scientists who tried in vain to locate the soul in man, and, not being able to find a specific organ located at a specific spot, opted to decline to admit that we have souls.
Hybrids proliferate and the political stakes of the cyborg remain open.
However, this course will attempt to do a history of the cyborg. Instead of fading in importance as time passes, they become more important, more in need of study. I think this is true of a number of texts in this course, but it is especially true of Shelley's Frankenstein .