‘Feminist Re-Visions Of The Cyborg : Theory And Praxis’

Abstract

Cyborgs are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. Our films, popular fiction and theoretical writings are enmeshed with it. This paper intends to highlight the feminist concept of ‘Cyborg’. The term is a conflation of ‘cybernetic organism’, coined by research space scientist Manfred Clynes. Cyborgs appeared in science fiction stories decades earlier. A ‘cyborg’ can be anything from a human with a prosthesis to a robot with a thin veneer of skin, according to Donna Haraway, we are all cyborgs to some degree. Thus she postulates a cyborg ontology which takes as its premise the dissolution of traditional boundaries associated with body. This paper tries to foreground the feminist perspective of this cyborg