Week 5: Cyborg

ABOVE IS MY CYBORG, HE IS A SPECIAL BEING AND UNLIKE ANY OTHER. THE WORDS THAT MAKE UP HIS BODY ARE UNIQUE, THEY STAND OUT, AND THEY BRING ATTENTION TO HIS FORM.

THE WORDS WRE CHOSEN BECAUSE I FELT THEY MADE THE MOST SENSE EACH WEEK. OUR READINGS HAVE TOUCHED ON MANY TOPICS WITHIN SCI-FI AND I WANTED TO BRING OUT THOSE TOPICS WITH KEY WORDS.

Week 4: The Integrated Circuit

"Cyborgs are no exception. A cyborg body is not innocent; it was not born in a garden; it does not seek unitary identity and so generate antagonistic dualism without end; it takes irony for granted."


-Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto"

Week 3: Woman as Robot Dolls

The quote below is from "Looking at Woman" by Scott Sanders...

"I would lie on my bunk pondering calculus or Aeschylus and unwillingly hear the same few nouns and fewer verbs issuing from one mouth after another, and I would feel smugly superior."

Week 2: Battle of the Sexes

From John Varley's "Options"

"... Don't be a man. Be a male, instead. The switchover's a lot easier that way."