Cyborg Consciousness Explorations of feminist and other visionary texts about body, mind, machine, resistance, contradiction, virtuality, the breakdown of dualisms and the demise of hierarchies. Course materials for Michael Joyce's class. Print and online resources. Prof. Joyce is a scholar of hypertext, cyberspace, and more. Outline and musings on cyborgs and their fictional representations.
Writing is pre-eminently the technology of cyborgs, etched surfaces of the late twentieth century.
Cyborg politics is the struggle for language and the struggle against perfect communication, against the one code that translates all meaning perfectly, the central dogma of phallocentrism. That is why cyborg politics insist on noise and advocate pollution, rejoicing in the illegitimate fusions of animal and machine. Cyborgs in Film final essay by Rachel Rein , U of CA, Berkeley. Includes a Select Bibliography . Electronic and print resources.