... surrogacy produces troublesome new citizens and illegitimate mothers. Theoretically, the essay engages performance studies and feminist scholarship on the cyborg to conclude that new reproductive technology, most notably practices such as transnational surrogacy, reconceptualizes both citizenship...

... An American cyberculture theorist and political activist, Chris Hables Gray was born in 1953 in Bishop, California. Gray is chiefly associated with the concept of the cybernetic organism or cyborg in addition to ideas regarding contemporary warfare and the politics of citizenship in the era of posthumanism...

..., the colonized body of RoboCop/Murphy, fatally flawed by its own original accidents, would be as false as clinging to the homo technologicus, fatally flawed by original sin. In an interview with John Armitage (1999 : 51), Virilio declared fiercely: “I want to be neither a God nor a cyborg! I want to be a man...

... dangerous, only trustworthy when at its most negative, and immensely powerful. The lie that the corporate cyborg knows best and that it respects individuals or humanity is shattered now. In its ruins we can say of post-COVID-19 culture. And nothing is gained. This panpsychism is also a mode of fatalism...

... with machines in the condition of postmodernity. Hardt and Negri are well aware of the theory of the cyborg, at least in Donna Haraway’s version, which they cite ( Haraway 1985 ). Their exposition of cyborg theory pretends to account for altered conditions but remains rooted in a subject theory of the human...

...: Interfaces with Digital Media . New York : Routledge . Haraway Donna . 1985 . “ A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s .” Socialist Review 5 ( 2 ): 65 – 107 . Haraway Donna . 1988 . “ Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism...

...” (28). The question she appears to ask throughout is: have we also transformed ourselves into Cyberpunk Cyborgs? And at what cost? To this end, Alphin examines the spatial theories of Marc Augé and Giles Deleuze to show how speed and access to space itself is exploited by the neoliberal project...

... Records . Cavell R. 2002 . McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography . Toronto : University of Toronto Press . Clark A. 2003 . Natural-Born Cyborgs: Mind, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Diamond J. 2004...

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... 1991 . Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature . New York : Routledge . Harvey David 2010 . The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism . London : Profile . Jameson, Fredric. 2003. “Future City.” New Left Review 21, newleftreview.org/II/21/fredric-jameson...

..., media archaeology, phenomenology, poststructuralism, cyborg studies, quantum theory, psychoanalysis, and literature, which, in diverse ways, link cultural analysis, politics, and ethics, though none of our contributors ally themselves wholeheartedly with one tradition. In considering and selecting...

... of Cyberspace . New York : Basic Books . Code 2.0 is available at www.socialtext.net/codev2/ . Macauley William Gordo-López Ángel . 1995 . “ From Cognitive Psychologies to Mythologies .“ In The Cyborg Handbook , edited by Gray Chris Hables Mentor Steven Figueroa-Sarriera Heidi...

... of Sexuality 3: The Care of the Self. Trans. Hurley R. . New York : Pantheon . Foucault Michel . 2004 . Naissance de la Biopolitique: Cours au Collège de France (1978–1979) . Paris : Gallimard . Haraway Donna . 1991 . Symians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature . New...

... Vortex reflects this technological alienation, the Power-Station Killer removing the organs of his victims and replacing them with machine parts and makeshift prostheses with the intention of reanimating the corpse after death, the whole system of this eerie cyborg to be controlled by a code stored...

... their mouths and from the figure’s breasts and genitals. In Female Bomb Spero collapses distinctions between a weapon and a body that has been destroyed by it, highlighting the devastation caused by the tools of warfare that give birth to the posthuman cyborg-as-killing-machine. Spero was fiercely committed...

... and official policy. Disinformation campaigns grew in a complex feedback loop (O'Neil 2020 ), generated by a combination (PBS 2020 ) of QAnon and Infowars conspiracy theories, algorithmic cascades, and cyborg “superspreader” misinformation bots (Aral 2020 ). A DDOS-like (distributed denial of service...

... . The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process. Oxford : Oxford University Press . Haraway D. 1991 . Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature . New York : Routledge . Haraway D. 1997 . Modest_Witness...

... resulted historically in the combined oppression of both people and machines in what I elsewhere refer to as the “actually existing cyborg” (Cubitt 1998) . The oppression of the living is, under capital, premised on the oppression of the dead. In this instance power has abandoned the task of making...

... of labor. Donna Haraway ( 2004 ) and Rosi Braidotti ( 2015 ) in particular emphasized the importance of figuration for a posthumanist feminist horizon, via their well-known articulations of the cyborg or the monster. As Peter Frase ( 2012 ) put it, many “writers in the anti-work tradition have often sought...

... the gadget craze (hiding phones in shoes, a car cigarette lighter, a steering-wheel, and even a full-sized phone). Get Smart would influence the popular children’s cartoon Inspector Gadget , aired in 1983–86, with its leading actor, Don Adams, also voicing the titular cyborg detective whose exclamation...