Foreigners On The Inside : The Cyborg as Loss and Violence
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This paper examines the element central to the notion of the cyborg as a figure of postmodern resistance – the cyborg's celebrated politics of irony, ambiguity, hybridity and effacement. The paper contends that actual constructions of cyborgism in social practice today are emerging in forms which offer far less empowerment than postmodern narratives might hope for. In the examples looked at, the enactment of cyborg space requires a continuous return to colonial or Enlightenment frameworks in order to claim appearances of 'resistance'. This constructs the cyborg as a constant and perpetual other as well as marks it through depletion and non-status. The discussion suggests that a more vigorous cyborg constitution might be generated by re-working the concept of its returns as 'emergent properties' or 'niche mappings' within the cyborg ecologies that epitomise twenty-first century practice.
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