Cyborg Alienation

‘Cyborg alienation’ is a term that has been used to refer to the alienation of cyborgs, such as alienation of cyborgs from the concept of humanity or human community. ‘Alienation’ is the state of being or feeling estranged from an object or a state, such as a person or mode of being. Alienation, so far as it is a feeling, requires a subject to feel that it is alienated from an object, which can either be also a perceived cognitive subject or a mere object, which is to say that subjects feeling alienated can feel so about either things having lived (e.g. other people), or things having never lived (e.g. computers). In media, cyborgs have been projected to be alienated from typically non-cyborg things, such as pre-cyborg human or "natural" states. Cyborg alienation can be seen as a form of cyborg maladaptation."Although mass media stories of cyborgization sometimes touch on cyborg alienation or self-rejection, it really isn't a common idea." — Chris Hables Gray, 2013" ... he nightly shops at the Chinese grocery store (wan shi hua chao shi) for canned food for his basset hound, a recurring symbol of human/cyborg alienation." — Sheng-mei Ma - 2007 - ‎Social Science
=== Media ===
* «Ghost in the Shell», 1995
== Rhizomata ==
* Cyborg; Alienation; Cyborgification; Maladaptation; Technological adaptation;
* Cyborg adaptation; Posthuman alienation; The loss of the human; The disappearance of the human;
* The extinction of the human; Lack of human touch; Accelerationism; 
* Acceleration of alienation; Pre-cyborgs; Anti-cyborg
* Alienation from humanity; Alienation from nature; Alienation from community
* Cyborgification as estrangement; Cyborgification as non-humanity; 
* Technological risk; Cyborg maladaptation; 
* Risk; Harm; Loss; Estrangement
Category:Technology