Topic: Is a cyborg queer? Discuss critical thinking on the intersections between sexuality and technology.
(1) Kupczak Tania “So You Wanna Be A Cyborg Mommy? Queer Identity and the New Reproductive Technologies” retrieved on 15 Mar. 2011 <http://www.refugia.net/domainerrors/DE2g_queer.pdf>
In the first paragraph, it said the author was in love with a cyborg at eight. Although that was not a real cyborg, the author fell in love with it and thought that Juno, the cyborg, was the woman that the author wants. Juno also same as people have pulse and can speak.
Also, the author said she is 99.8% biological, which means there is 0.02% not biological, because the author believes that the technological intervention in daily is omnipresent and infer the conscription into the position of the cyborg status.
Moreover, as we have succeeded the most important time of cyborg by accepts or reject it, but we are live in a culture that not usually let us to replace the reality of technologically mediated. In the article, the author quote the words of Donna Haraway, that “the cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world.” That means cyborg maybe do not have any gender, however the gender identity is still remains.
In the journal, it mentions that the cyborg of Haraway does not nullify heterosexual sex as a needed to have reproductively, so this will make the scope of fecund events wider that include those are technologically mediated.
At last, the terms “gay” and “family” will not mutually exclusive because of the women and men wish to create the kinship models that have the obtainable tools to do the controlling societal structure of family.
(2) Lykke Nina(2000) “Are Cyborgs Queer?” retrieved on 15 Mar. 2011
< http://www.women.it/quarta/workshops/epistemological4/ninalykke.htm>
“Cyborg” and “Queer” seems to be the most important focus for the discussion of feminist. The article mentions that these two elements have a prominent role in the feminist theorizing in 1990s. This is also link to the biological sex and the subjectivity of the gender.
The author agree with Franklin (1993), Haraway (1997) and the others, that bass on the destabilization of biological determinism of current time, the new reproductive technogies should not just created in a naive way. The Cyborg has been used for think the consequences of the new reproductive technologies and the reprogenetics, that the author talks about. For the cyborg, if they can have a power to do the reproduce process that is it means cyborg have a gender, and also the author talks about that “the queer” imposes herself on the agenda of cyborg-feminism.
For sex is causes gender, this is between sex and gender, culture and biography, and these emphasize that sex is socioculturally constructed, but it also can upside-down to defend the position of the gender constructs sex.
As Foucault and Butler talk about, that sex and sexuality are historical and sociocultural constructions. The sexuality in “normal” heterosexuality and the others are understood as a result of reproduction’s connection of sexuality.
(3) Miyake Esperanza “My, is that Cyborg a little bit Queer?” retrieved on 14 Mar. 2011
< http://www.bridgew.edu/soas/jiws/Mar04/Miyake.pdf>
Cyborg can define she, she is given a gender and the gendered skin tight suit. Also, she depends on her counterparts are male that and wearing jeans and jumpers. The other “female” in the film also the same but “she” pathetically grumbles after she is told to say “I want you” this is the comment of the author after watching the film, and think they all need to be more queer. The queer cyborg on its organic crotch has a hand. The cyborg of Miyake is a necessarily queer creature that is a constant representation of heterosexual otherness. Cyblogs is queerness and will turns to be the technoqueer.
Cyberspace is indeed a space that refracts and reflects culture. Queering is important for the cyberqueer space. The space provides the power transmits from the culture and institution. Our body is the power and so that the word comes from our body, and the words are what space and time that in the new conceptions service of human and the human body.
Cyborg queer is hard to create its space and identity, maybe the cyberspace can wipe this out or able for human to have queer.
(4) Chess Shira(2008) “The C-Word : Queering the Cylons” retrieved on 14 Mar. 2011
< http://www.shiraland.com/Work/bsg_sample.pdf>
Using 2 different shows for the beginning, that for talk about the cyborg and the queer. The author use “Battlestar Galactica” and “The L-Word” this 2 shows to mentions the cyborg and queer later on. From the “Battlestar Galactica”, that smoothly embraces homophobia into technophobia, and also the homosexual reproduction into the technological production. This find out that the reproductively is no need to be heterosexuality for doing that and the neuroses of technologically extinct humans. Also, the cyborg are not must to be queer.
The cyborg is a figure that have a strong power, and it is one of the figure that has enter to many science fiction and help us sometime to question what it means to be human or machine. Moreover, it mention about the gender of the cyborg, for the cyborg, as they have parts of human elements, they sometime try to lead human to lose the way, more even is tempting them in a sexuality way. Even when the cyborg is not tempting human in a homosexual way. However, cyborg also through their temptable technologies for the same representations of queerness. As they are technoqueer, technoqueer is not about gay or straight, but about the ways that fears of technologies that overlap with fears of new forms of reproduction.
(5) Allison Anne “Cyborg Violence: Bursting Borders and Bodies with Queer Machines” retrieved on 13 Mar. 2011
<http://www.google.com/books?hl=zh-TW&lr=&id=--9FhG69PP0C&oi=fnd&pg=PA25&dq=cyborg+queer&ots=hM3FpOelMQ&sig=PW28gId5cfo7zvNMYExUJIBetEM#v=onepage&q=cyborg%20queer&f=false>
From the beginning, the author quote a movie scenes of RoboCop2 that directed by Irvin Kershner. This is special for the author introduce is the cop in the movie is a cyborg, and talks about the media and kids have a connection, but that connection is contains violence.
The author mention that cyborg created themselves out of the body parts , for who or what the cyborg is , it is troubles and constitutes have to concern about it.
For the cyborg, they are new subjects that have a singular identity and they are queer. As Sailor Moon for an example, which is one of the cartoons of Japan, that the girls have superpower also have a body and identity that make people feel confuse with human and cyborg. This creates a cyborg fantasy for the children.
It is important to consider what is productive for today of the cyborg fantasy. Why is because of Donna Haraway, she sees cyborgs as progressive potential. Male versus female and self versus other, cyborgs have complicated bodies. And people can think about is cyborgs having a gender or just the people offer them to have the gender.
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