CMNS 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Donna Haraway, Cyberfeminism, Cyborg
9 Mar 2018
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What happens when technologies combine with bodies: case studies, quantified self, implants (visible and invisible), etc, fashion can be a technology. What are the intersections between disability studies and gender/sexuality studies: disability studies have had exciting growth in last decade; interesting branch of clinical studies. People were intrigued with life off the earth. Bio-engineering and wearable computing makes it ubiquitous: e. g. Fitbit; maybe in the future it will just be injected into our bodies. Company developing whole new platform for surveillance. Created friendly life-like scenario to show you how harmless it is; how it will enhance your life. Not monitoring you as individual, but acousmatic. Observes ambient data environments (cid:862)liste(cid:374)s(cid:863) fo(cid:396) ha(cid:396)(cid:373)o(cid:374)i(cid:272)s to e(cid:373)e(cid:396)ge as (cid:448)a(cid:396)iousl(cid:455)-combined data points fall into and out of phase/statistical correlation. Blurring boundaries between material elements: animal/nature human (20th century) and human-machine (21st century) sets stage for the cyborg. C(cid:455)(cid:271)o(cid:396)gs a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) te(cid:272)h(cid:374)olog(cid:455) = li(cid:271)e(cid:396)ato(cid:396)(cid:455) pote(cid:374)tials fo(cid:396) (cid:862)(cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) i(cid:374) the world.
