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There is an inherent overlap between science fiction and the fields of social cybernetics and cyb... more There is an inherent overlap between science fiction and the fields of social cybernetics and cyborg theory, pushing the bounds of scientific possibility and the 'human'. Donna Haraway's 'Cyborg Manifesto' considers primarily feminist science fiction in order to problematise the naturalistic malefemale binary, but her assessment of the human-machine hybrid certainly applies beyond feminist discourse and to the wider social assimilation of technology as "prosthetic devices, intimate components, friendly selves" and an abandonment of "organic holism" as a necessity for "impermeable whole-ness". In her essay 'How we Became Posthuman', Katherine Hayles turns to William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' as an example of how the concept of a machine-flesh duality has begun to "precipitate into public consciousness," breaking down the boundaries that define the 'machine' as separate to the 'human', or in more contemporary terms, where the 'machine' is the 'cybernetic', or the vast network of interconnected computer systems linking the modern world.
There is an inherent overlap between science fiction and the fields of social cybernetics and cyb... more There is an inherent overlap between science fiction and the fields of social cybernetics and cyborg theory, pushing the bounds of scientific possibility and the 'human'. Donna Haraway's 'Cyborg Manifesto' considers primarily feminist science fiction in order to problematise the naturalistic malefemale binary, but her assessment of the human-machine hybrid certainly applies beyond feminist discourse and to the wider social assimilation of technology as "prosthetic devices, intimate components, friendly selves" and an abandonment of "organic holism" as a necessity for "impermeable whole-ness". In her essay 'How we Became Posthuman', Katherine Hayles turns to William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' as an example of how the concept of a machine-flesh duality has begun to "precipitate into public consciousness," breaking down the boundaries that define the 'machine' as separate to the 'human', or in more contemporary terms, where the 'machine' is the 'cybernetic', or the vast network of interconnected computer systems linking the modern world.