Mythology of births as stiff casts and Slaughterhouse Five
Michael Gallagher As I am apparently fixated, I am carrying on with the Shields’ article building on that notion of flaneur and the cyborg equivalent as being a traveler, an observer, a…
November 2010
Cyborg: jettisoning foolish consistencies
Further in the Shields’ article and speaking of cyborg as flaneur, we have the following quote: In the pages of the novels of André Dumas or Eugene Sue, the flâneur…
Cyborgs & the Truth of the Metropolis
I think over the course of the next week it will become painfully obvious that I enjoyed Shields’s “Flanerie for Cyborgs” article tremendously. It captured a bit of my somewhat…
Week 8 Review: Lifestream Summary
This week’s readings were indeed challenging and I find myself still working through Haraway’s “Cyborg Pedagogy” and Hayles’ “Embedded Virtuality” with great enthusiasm, but perhaps with less comprehension. I am…
Wearable Technology: Cyborg fashion and incentives for permanent tattoos
Apparently, I wasn’t quite done with this thought process on wearable technology and how it applies to cyborg. What I found unique about this approach were the accessories, that essentially…
Wearable Technology and Cyborg Augmentation: Reflexive Feedback
I am actually of the opinion that wearable technology, which is logically defined as technology that can be worn (generally embedded in the clothing or itself), offers a good metaphor…
Gallagher as Cyborg: Roles make the Identity?
This is more or less just for fun and obviously some ambitious coder ran with the dystopian notion of what cyborg might be, but be sure to give a try…