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Garry, Tony, and Tracy Harwood. "Cyborgs as frontline service employees: a research agenda." Journal of Service Theory and Practice 29, no. 4 (December 2, 2019): 415–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jstp-11-2018-0241.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify and explore potential applications of cyborgian technologies within service contexts and how service providers may leverage the integration of cyborgian service actors into their service proposition. In doing so, the paper proposes a new category of “melded” frontline employees (FLEs), where advanced technologies become embodied within human actors. The paper presents potential opportunities and challenges that may arise through cyborg technological advancements and proposes a future research agenda related to these. Design/methodology/approach This study draws on literature in the fields of services management, artificial intelligence, robotics, intelligence augmentation (IA) and human intelligence to conceptualise potential cyborgian applications. Findings The paper examines how cyborg bio- and psychophysical characteristics may significantly differentiate the nature of service interactions from traditional “unenhanced” service interactions. In doing so, the authors propose “melding” as a conceptual category of technological impact on FLEs. This category reflects the embodiment of emergent technologies not previously captured within existing literature on cyborgs. The authors examine how traditional roles of FLEs will be potentially impacted by the integration of emergent cyborg technologies, such as neural interfaces and implants, into service contexts before outlining future research directions related to these, specifically highlighting the range of ethical considerations. Originality/value Service interactions with cyborg FLEs represent a new context for examining the potential impact of cyborgs. This paper explores how technological advancements will alter the individual capacities of humans to enable such employees to intuitively and empathetically create solutions to complex service challenges. In doing so, the authors augment the extant literature on cyborgs, such as the body hacking movement. The paper also outlines a research agenda to address the potential consequences of cyborgian integration.
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Sever, Staša. "Prostheses, Cyborgs and Cyberspace – the Cyberpunk Trinity." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 10, no. 2 (May 9, 2013): 83–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.10.2.83-93.
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This article will explore three elements that have collectively become the sine qua non of our lives: prostheses, cyborgs and cyberspace. The main concern of the article is to show the close connection between the technology-saturated reality of today and the literature of cyberpunk as the prototypical representative of merging the human and the technological. This will enable us to explore the interaction between literature and reality in the formation of the cyborg of today.
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Stojnić, Aneta. "Cyborgs from Fiction to Reality: Marginalized Other or Privileged First?" Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture 10, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2013): 49–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.51151/identities.v10i1-2.278.
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In this paper I will offer an analysis of cyber technology, cyberspace and cyborg from its appearance in fiction to its contemporary realizations, in order to show symbolic place of cyborg has changed, in the light of contemporary power relations. I will focus on the cyborg figure in literature and film, mainly the cyberpunk genre characteristic for fictionalization of the relations between individual, society and technology.
Author(s): Aneta Stojnić
Title (English): Cyborgs from Fiction to Reality: Marginalized Other or Privileged First?
Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1-2 (Summer-Winter 2013)
Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje
Page Range: 49-53
Page Count: 5
Citation (English): Aneta Stojnić, „Cyborgs from Fiction to Reality: Marginalized Other or Privileged First?,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1-2 (Summer-Winter 2013): 49-53.
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Azra Akhtar, Nighat Falgaroo, and Adil Hussain. "Beyond the Organic: Rupturing Maternal Constructs and Female Cyborg Identity in S.B. Divya’s <i>Machinehood</i>." Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 18, no. 1 (June 26, 2024): 85–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v18i1.3213.
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This research paper delves into the nuanced portrayal of female cyborg identity and its intersection with motherhood in S.B. Divya’s novel Machinehood. Drawing inspiration from Donna Haraway’s foundational work “A Cyborg Manifesto,” we examine how Divya’s narrative navigates the complex interplay between technology and gender within the context of a futuristic society. Haraway’s concept of cyborgism serves as a theoretical framework to analyse the multifaceted nature of female cyborg characters in Machinehood. The paper explores how these characters negotiate the boundaries between the organic and the artificial, challenging traditional notions of femininity and motherhood. Haraway envisions the cyborg as a hybrid entity with the potential to subvert normative categories that becomes a lens through which we scrutinise the female cyborgs’ agency in shaping their identities and relationships. Central to our analysis is the examination of motherhood in the context of technological augmentation. In conclusion, the present paper aims to contribute to the evolving area of scholarship on science fiction literature, feminist theory, and cyborg studies. By leveraging Haraway’s ground breaking ideas, we illuminate the significance of female cyborg identity and its portrayal in Machinehood, shedding light on the transformative potential of technology in reshaping traditional gender norms and familial structures.
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Torres-Hostench, Olga. "Will translators be cyborgs? What would make a cyborg translator?" Tradumàtica: tecnologies de la traducció, no. 20 (December 21, 2022): 268–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/tradumatica.316.
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Previous literature on cyborg translators focus mainly on machine translation as the ultimate science fiction. In 2022 it is relevant to talk about cyborg translators beyond just machine translation to picture new challenges. The aim of this article is to invite the readers to reflect on the subject.
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Ferrández-Sanmiguel, María. "Resilient Cyborgs." Extrapolation: Volume 62, Issue 3 62, no. 3 (December 1, 2021): 247–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.2021.14.
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This article reads Pat Cadigan’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel Synners (1991) from the perspectives of trauma studies and posthumanism to analyze the representation of the cyborged (post)human in cyberspace. My main focus is Cadigan’s depiction of a posttraumatic world whose living conditions invite escape, and how this depiction emphasizes the fact that escape through technological transcendence is not an option, and neither is the rejection of technology altogether. Despite this bleak scenario, the novel leaves some room for optimism in the figuration of a posthuman form of resilience, inspiring reflection about future forms of engagement with technology. As this article attempts to prove, Synners uses the tropes of the cyborg and cyberspace to explore the implications of subjectivity and embodiment within technoscience. In so doing, the novel opens a critical space for interrogation of the relationship between trauma, the posthuman body, and digital technology.
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Bhanushali, Shivam. "Mumbai Cyborgs in Literature and Cinema." Motifs : A Peer Reviewed International Journal of English Studies 7, si (2021): 209–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2454-1753.2021.00038.6.
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Putra, Bagas Dwika, and Radea Yuli Ahmad Hambali. "Cyborgs dan Perempuan Menurut Pandangan Posthumanisme Donna J. Haraway." Jurnal Penelitian Ilmu Ushuluddin 3, no. 1 (January 10, 2023): 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.15575/jpiu.19521.
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There is a need to re-question the human condition today, and technology changes the history of human civilization and social development, so that the "condition" of Posthumanism and cyborgs is one of them. The vision of 'post-gender' cyborgs has sparked feminist interest in reclaiming technology as a tool of liberation, whose identity has always been biologically identical, but cyborgs view this differently. Because of cyborgs, women are able to create their own identity, and create a more ideal reality for women. This research uses qualitative methods and literature study approach. The data used in this study are primary data in the form of the work of Donna J. Haraway and secondary data in the form of books and journals related to the discussion of this research. The conclusion of this study is that women should use technology as a tool for liberation and as a "former" of non-biological identity.
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Christie, J. R. R. (John R. R. ). "A Tragedy for Cyborgs." Configurations 1, no. 1 (1993): 171–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/con.1993.0001.
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Glimp, David. "Moral philosophy for cyborgs." postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 1, no. 1-2 (March 2010): 72–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2010.9.
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Sey, J. "The terminator syndrome: Science fiction, cinema and contemporary culture." Literator 13, no. 3 (May 6, 1992): 13–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v13i3.760.
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This paper examines the impact of contemporary technology on representations of the human body in American popular culture, focusing on James Cameron’s science fiction films The Terminator (1984) and The Terminator II - Judgment Day (1991) in both of which the key figures are cybernetic organisms (cyborgs) or a robot which can exactly imitate the human form . The paper argues that the ability of modern film technology’ to represent the human form in robotic guise undercuts the distinction between nature and culture which maintains the position of the human being in society. The ability of the robot or cyborg to be ‘polygendered’ in particular, undermines the position of a properly oedipalized human body in society, one which balances the instinctual life against the rule of cultural law. As a result the second Terminator film attempts a recuperation of the category of the human by an oedipalization of the terminator cyborg.
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Bickert, Lorena. "Hoping for Cyborgs: Cyborg Eco-Heroism, Odd Kinships, and Hopeful Heroics in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 29, no. 1 (June 1, 2023): 34–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/1/3.
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Abstract Building on Donna Haraway’s advocacy for embracing “unexpected collaborations and combinations, in hot compost piles” (Trouble 4), this paper reads Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans (2013) with a focus on how, in the face of profound environmental challenges, stereotypical narratives of heroism are transformed—like in a compost pile—through cyborg-elements. The essay argues that grounding hero stories in the techno-organismal entanglements of ecosystemic crisis, yields an explicitly instable, corporeal conception of heroism in/of crisis of eco-heroism. Reading Smith’s protagonists, Fen and Daniel, as eco-heroic cyborgs in conjunction with ideals of the traditional hero’s corporeal and affective superiority creates instances of hopeful heroics in the narrative that challenge supposedly stabilizing patterns of identification in traditional discourses of American heroism. This vision of cyborg eco-heroism in Orleans makes communicable an unpredictable and instable crisisstate, generating hope as a composted affect in this eco-heroic story of oddkin. (LB)
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Malhado, André. "“It’s music, a human thought structure”. La música como tecnología de los cyborgs en el cine cyberpunk Español." Cuadernos de investigación musical, no. 15 (May 11, 2022): 105–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.18239/invesmusic.2022.15.10.
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En este artículo, analizo cómo dos películas españolas de cyberpunk, Eva y Autómata, imaginan cyborgs y representan la música como parte de sus capacidades relacionales con artefactos, entidades y entornos. A través de un análisis interconectado, presento la idea de la ecología musical como una articulación entre las convenciones sonoras del cyberpunk y la música preexistente. Otro tema es el sujeto post-humano, al que denomino ensamblaje música-cyborgs donde los fenómenos sonoros son un agente intrínseco y activo de su construcción. La principal conclusión es que la música es una metáfora de la humanidad y un canal hacia nuevos modos de subjetividad destinados a reconfigurar la producción musical, la escucha, la interpretación y el placer.
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Covino, William A. "Grammars of transgression: Golems, cyborgs, and mutants." Rhetoric Review 14, no. 2 (March 1996): 355–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07350199609389070.
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Dekoven, Marianne. "Jouissance, Cyborgs, and Companion Species: Feminist Experiment." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 121, no. 5 (October 2006): 1690–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2006.121.5.1690.
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In the late seventies and early eighties (around 1981, in Jane Gallop's memorable formulation), utopia still seemed at hand. The energies of the defeated revolutionary political and counter cultural movements of the sixties seemed to have been channeled into feminism. For some feminist theorists and critics working in literary academia, the revolution of the word, that fabulous legacy of the twentieth-century avant-gardes, seemed to have become the revolution itself. Experimental writing—writing that disrupts conventional modes of signification and provides alternatives to them—was, for literature, the site of this revolution. Through the work of continental poststructuralists and psychoanalytic theorists, particularly Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Helene Cixous, and Luce Irigaray, we (academic feminists, almost entirely Euro-American and white) assembled an arsenal of ideas and analyses that we thought would change the world, as sixties activism had failed to do.
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Dixon, Steve. "Metal Performance Humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About." TDR/The Drama Review 48, no. 4 (December 2004): 15–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/1054204042442017.
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Islam, Md Shafiqul. "Augmented Reality and Life in the Cyberspace in William Gibson’s Neuromancer." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 12, no. 4 (August 29, 2021): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.12n.4.p.30.
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This paper attempts a cybercritical reading of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer (1984) to explore the genesis of cyborgs in the novel, address issues pertaining to cyberpunks and scrutinize the portrayal of a cyberculture set in the futuristic dystopian city of Chiba. The relationship between humans and machines has gone through multiple phases of changes in the recent past. That is why instead of satirizing machinized-humans, science fiction writers have embraced different dimensions of man-machine relationships during the past few decades. ‘Cyborg’ is no longer represented as the ‘mutation of human capabilities’, but as ‘machines with Artificial Intelligence’. Gibson’s Neuromancer, a landmark piece of literary work in the sphere of Sci-Fi literature, specifically predicts a new height of man-machine relationship by employing both human and cyborg characters at the center of his story line. This paper shows how Gibson accurately prophesizes the matrix of machine-human relationship in his novel. It also explores Gibson’s depiction of female characters through the lens of cyberfeminist theories. In view of that, this paper uses contemporary critical and cultural theories including Donna Haraway’s idea of cyberfeminism, Baudrillard’s simulation and simulacra, Foucauldian discourse analysis, Jeremy Bentham’s concept of tabula rasa and other relevant theoretical ideas to examine and evaluate the transformative changes.
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Parrilla, Beatriz Barrera. "Cyborgs inmortales y trogloditas enamorados: antropología de Jaime Sabines." Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 31, no. 61 (2005): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25070264.
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Cheng, Meiling. "Cyborgs in Mutation: osseus labyrint's Alien Body Art." TDR/The Drama Review 45, no. 2 (June 2001): 145–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/105420402760157736.
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This California-based company, founded in 1989, stages high-risk site-specific performances. Somewhere between sci-fi movies and extreme body art, the work of osseus labyrint takes place on the edges between art, ecology, and biology.
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O’Riordan, Kate. "Life and the Technological: Cyborgs, Companions, and the Chthulucene." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 34, no. 3 (September 2, 2019): 387–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2019.1664181.
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BROWN, J. A. "Cyborgs, Post-Punk, and the Neobaroque: Ricardo Piglia's La ciudad ausente." Comparative Literature 61, no. 3 (January 1, 2009): 316–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2009-018.
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Stefani, Ilaria. "Oscuras quimeras: metamorfosis e híbridos humano-animal en algunos textos de literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea." Altre Modernità, no. 26 (November 29, 2021): 35–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/16684.
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RESUMEN: Este estudio se propone investigar las distintas formas de construcción de identidades posthumanas a partir del elemento arquetípico de la metamorfosis y del híbrido humano-animal. Estas nuevas figuraciones rescatan una perspectiva acerca de lo animal procedente de un imaginario premoderno para deconstruir las categorías que han definido el sujeto humano a partir de la modernidad europea. En algunos textos publicados en los últimos veinte años, la mezcla entre especies plantea un nuevo concepto de identidad: por un lado, se examina cómo el devenir-animal se acompaña a la emancipación de la figura femenina y a la deconstrucción de la idea de familia patriarcal; por el otro, se exploran las conjunciones entre el híbrido humano-animal y el cyborg.
ABSTRACT: This article aims to study the different ways of shaping posthuman identities, which originates from archetypical metamorphoses and human-animal hybrids. This new imaginary rescues a premodern perspective about the animal, in order to dismantle the boundaries that have defined the human subject since the European modern age. In some books published in the past twenty years, the interspecies encounter outlines a new identity concept. Firstly, the article examines how the becoming-animal concept merges with the feminine subject’s emancipation, as well as with the deconstruction of the patriarchal family structure; secondly, it explores the conjunctions between human-animal hybrids and cyborgs.
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Taylor, Claire. "Cities, codes and cyborgs in Carmen Boullosa'sceilos de la tierra." Bulletin of Spanish Studies 80, no. 4 (July 2003): 477–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1475382032000124251.
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Beebee, Thomas O. "Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance (review)." Comparative Literature Studies 41, no. 3 (2004): 440–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cls.2004.0028.
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Heise, Ursula K. "The Android and the Animal." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 124, no. 2 (March 2009): 503–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.2.503.
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Pixar's animated feature wall-E (2008) revolves around a sentient robot, a small trash compactor who faith fully continues his programmed duties seven hundred years into the future, after humans have long abandoned their polluted home planet. Landscaped into skyscrapers of compacted waste, Earth no longer seems to harbor any organic life other than a cockroach, Wall-E's only and constant friend. Similarly, in Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004; ), sequel to the groundbreaking first Ghost in the Shell anime, the love of the cyborg police officer Batou for his vanished colleague Motoko Kusanagi is surpassed only by the care and affection he displays for his pet basset hound. These films are two recent examples of works of science fiction in which the emergence of new kinds of humanoid consciousness in robots, cyborgs, or biotechnologically produced humans is accompanied by a renewed attention to animals. Why? In what ways does the presence of wild, domestic, genetically modified, or mechanical animals reshape the concerns about the human subject that are most centrally articulated, in many of these works, through technologically produced and reproduced human minds and bodies?
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Spooner, Catherine, and Rob Latham. "Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption." Modern Language Review 99, no. 2 (April 2004): 481. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3738782.
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Rivera, L. "Appropriate(d) Cyborgs: Diasporic Identities in Dwayne McDuffie's Deathlok Comic Book Series." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 32, no. 3 (September 1, 2007): 103–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/32.3.103.
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Bilbija, Ksenija. "Rosario Ferre's "The Youngest Doll": On Women, Dolls, Golems and Cyborgs." Callaloo 17, no. 3 (1994): 878. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2931871.
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Eigler, Friederike. "Rereading Christa Wolf's "Selbstversuch": Cyborgs and Feminist Critiques of Scientific Discourse." German Quarterly 73, no. 4 (2000): 401. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3072759.
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R, Bhuvaneswari, Cynthiya Rose J S, and Maria Baptist S. "Editorial: Indian Literature: Past, Present and Future." Studies in Media and Communication 11, no. 2 (February 22, 2023): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/smc.v11i2.5932.
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IntroductionIndian Literature with its multiplicity of languages and the plurality of cultures dates back to 3000 years ago, comprising Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas and Epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata. India has a strong literary tradition in various Indian regional languages like Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and so on. Indian writers share oral tradition, indigenous experiences and reflect on the history, culture and society in regional languages as well as in English. The first Indian novel in English is Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Rajmohan’s Wife (1864). Indian Writing in English can be viewed in three phases - Imitative, First and Second poets’ phases. The 20th century marks the matrix of indigenous novels. The novels such as Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1935), Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupé (2001), and Khuswant Singh’s Memories of Madness: Stories of 1947 (2002) depict social issues, vices and crises (discrimination, injustice, violence against women) in India. Indian writers, and their contribution to world literature, are popular in India and abroad.Researchers are keen on analysing the works of Indian writers from historical, cultural, social perspectives and on literary theories (Post-Colonialism, Postmodernity, Cultural Studies). The enormity of the cultural diversity in India is reflected in Indian novels, plays, dramas, short stories and poems. This collection of articles attempts to capture the diversity of the Indian land/culture/landscape. It focuses on the history of India, partition, women’s voices, culture and society, and science and technology in Indian narratives, documentaries and movies.Special Issue: An Overview“Whatever has happened, has happened for goodWhatever is happening, is also for goodWhatever will happen, shall also be good.”- The Bhagavad-Gita.In the Mahabharata’s Kurukshetra battlefield, Lord Krishna counsels Arjuna on how everything that happens, regardless of whether it is good or bad, happens for a reason.Indian Literature: Past, Present and Future portrays the glorious/not-so-glorious times in history, the ever-changing crisis/peace of contemporary and hope for an unpredictable future through India’s literary and visual narratives. It focuses on comparison across cultures, technological advancements and diverse perspectives or approaches through the work of art produced in/on India. It projects India’s flora, fauna, historical monuments and rich cultural heritage. It illustrates how certain beliefs and practices come into existence – origin, evolution and present structure from a historical perspective. Indian Literature: Past, Present and Future gives a moment to recall, rectify and raise to make a promising future. This collection attempts to interpret various literary and visual narratives which are relevant at present.The Epics Reinterpreted: Highlighting Feminist Issues While Sustaining Deep Motif, examines the Women characters in the Epics – Ramayana and Mahabharata. It links the present setting to the violence against women described in the Epics Carl Jung’s archetypes are highlighted in a few chosen characters (Sita, Amba, Draupati). On one note, it emphasises the need for women to rise and fight for their rights.Fictive Testimony and Genre Tension: A Study of ‘Functionality’ of Genre in Manto’s Toba Tek Singh, analyses the story as a testimony and Manto as a witness. It discusses the ‘Testimony and Fictive Testimony’ in Literature. It explains how the works are segregated into a particular genre. The authors conclude that the testimony is to be used to understand or identify with the terror.Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the select Partition writings by Muslim Women, explores the predicament of women during the Partition of India through Mumtaz Shah Nawaz’s The Heart Divided (1990) and Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column (2009). It addresses ‘Feminist Geography’ to escape precarity. It depicts a woman who is cut off from her own ethnic or religious group and tries to conjure up her memories as a means of coping with loneliness and insecurity.Nation Building Media Narratives and its Anti-Ecological Roots: An Eco-Aesthetic Analysis of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, analyses the post-Partition trauma in the fictional village, Mano Majra. It illustrates the cultural and spiritual bond between Mano Majrans — the inhabitants of Mano Majra — and nature (the land and river). It demonstrates how the media constructs broad myths about culture, religion, and nation. According to the authors, Mano Majrans place a high value on the environment, whilst the other boundaries are more concerned with nationalism and religion.Pain and Hopelessness among Indian Farmers: An Analysis of Deepa Bhatia’s Nero’s Guests documents the farmers’ suicides in India as a result of debt and decreased crop yield. The travels of Sainath and his encounters with the relatives of missing farmers have been chronicled in the documentary Nero’s Guests. It uses the Three Step Theory developed by David Klonsky and Alexis May and discusses suicide as a significant social issue. The authors conclude that farmers are the foundation of the Indian economy and that without them, India’s economy would collapse. It is therefore everyone’s responsibility—the people and the government—to give farmers hope so that they can overcome suicidal thoughts.The link between animals and children in various cultures is discussed in The New Sociology of Childhood: Animal Representations in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Garden in the Dunes, Amazon’s Oh My Dog, and Netflix’s Mughizh: A Cross-Cultural Analysis. It examines the chosen works from the perspectives of cross-cultural psychology and the New Sociology of Childhood. It emphasises kids as self-sufficient, engaged, and future members of society. It emphasises universal traits that apply to all people, regardless of culture. It acknowledges anthropomorphized cartoons create a bond between kids and animals.Life in Hiding: Censorship Challenges faced by Salman Rushdie and Perumal Murugan, explores the issues sparked by their writings. It draws attention to the aggression and concerns that were forced on them by the particular sect of society. It explains the writers’ experiences with the fatwa, court case, exile, and trauma.Female Body as the ‘Other’: Rituals and Biotechnical Approach using Perumal Murugan’s One Part Woman and Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women, questions the society that limits female bodies for procreation and objectification. It talks about how men and women are regarded differently, as well as the cultural ideals that apply to women. It explains infertility, which is attributed to women, as well as people’s ignorance and refusal to seek medical help in favour of adhering to traditional customs and engaging in numerous rituals for procreation.Life and (non) Living: Technological and Human Conglomeration in Android Kunjappan Version 5.25, explores how cyborgs and people will inevitably interact in the Malayalam film Android Kunjappan Version 5.25. It demonstrates the advantages, adaptability, and drawbacks of cyborgs in daily life. It emphasises how the cyborg absorbs cultural and religious notions. The authors argue that cyborgs are an inevitable development in the world and that until the flaws are fixed, humans must approach cyborgs with caution. The Challenges of Using Machine Translation While Translating Polysemous Words, discusses the difficulty of using machine translation to translate polysemous words from French to English (Google Translate). It serves as an example of how the machine chooses the formal or often-used meaning rather than the pragmatic meaning and applies it in every situation. It demonstrates how Machine Translation is unable to understand the pragmatic meaning of Polysemous terms because it is ignorant of the cultures of the source and target languages. It implies that Machine Translation will become extremely beneficial and user-friendly if the flaws are fixed.This collection of articles progresses through the literary and visual narratives of India that range from historical events to contemporary situations. It aims to record the stories that are silenced and untold through writing, film, and other forms of art. India’s artistic output was influenced by factors such as independence, partition, the Kashmir crisis, the Northeast Insurgency, marginalisation, religious disputes, environmental awareness, technical breakthroughs, Bollywood, and the Indian film industry. India now reflects a multitude of cultures and customs as a result of these occurrences. As we examine the Indian narratives produced to date, we can draw the conclusion that India has a vast array of tales to share with the rest of the world.Guest Editorial BoardGuest Editor-in-ChiefDr. Bhuvaneswari R, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. She has pursued her master’s at the University of Madras, Chennai and doctoral research at HNB Central University, Srinagar. Her research areas of interest are ELT, Children/Young Adult Literature, Canadian writings, Indian literature, and Contemporary Fiction. She is passionate about environmental humanities. She has authored and co-authored articles in National and International Journals.Guest EditorsCynthiya Rose J S, Assistant Professor (Jr.), School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. Her research interests are Children’s Literature, Indian Literature and Graphic Novels.Maria Baptist S, Assistant Professor (Jr.), School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. His research interests include Crime/Detective fiction and Indian Literature.MembersDr. Sufina K, School of Science and Humanities, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, IndiaDr. Narendiran S, Department of Science and Humanities, St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
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Manrique Rabelo, Milton. "Saona, M. (2023). De monstruos y cyborgs. Editorial Intermezzo Tropical." Letras (Lima) 94, no. 140 (December 31, 2023): 178. http://dx.doi.org/10.30920/letras.94.140.15.
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De monstruos y cyborgs de Margarita Saona (Intermezzo Tropical, 2023) es un ensayo-testimonio breve e intenso, con pequeñas imágenes al interior que ambientan el texto y potencian la reflexión sobre la hibridez y mimetismo que puede generar un trasplante de órgano en el ser humano. La autora, en este libro, no solo narra su experiencia de cómo cambió su vida luego de realizarse dos trasplantes: uno de válvula porcina (xenotrasplante) y otro de corazón humano (alotrasplante), sino también reflexiona acerca de los trasplantes y todo lo que implica someterse a uno: uso de aparatos tecnológicos, empleo y reconocimiento de la inteligencia artificial, consumo de medicamentos inmunosupresores, cuestionamientos sobre la “unicidad” del yo, entre otros aspectos.
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Shinn, C. A. "On Machines and Mosquitoes: Neuroscience, Bodies, and Cyborgs in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 33, no. 4 (December 1, 2008): 145–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/33.4.145.
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Khvastunova, Yulia V. "THE CONCEPT OF MULTIPLE IDENTITY IN TRANSHUMANIST LITERATURE (THE CASE STUDY OF D. BRIN’S VISION)." Russian Studies in Culture and Society 7, no. 1 (March 31, 2023): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2576-9782-2023-1-69-83.
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This paper deals with one of the urgent problems in the framework of the implementation of the latest radical technologies of “human enhancement” the so-called theory of multiple identity (multiple “I”, the theory of doubles, and the duplication of consciousness). This topic of a possible backup of our consciousness is analyzed in relation to the procedure for digitally uploading consciousness, creating digital avatars, cyborgs, and clones and cases of success in the field of gene editing as well as the application of this technology to humans. In fiction, particularly in science fiction, this problem is included in the list of top mysterious subjects. As an example, the paper considers a position of a famous science fiction writer and supporter of transhumanism David Brin, presented in the work “Kiln People”. The article highlights main ideas, possible risks, and negative consequences that the writer is trying to foresee and reveal scenarios for the development of launching a mass duplication of consciousness or creating a technology for implementing a multiple identity of “I”.
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Zywert, Aleksandra. "Nowy człowiek, wersja 2.0 (na podstawie wybranych utworów prozy rosyjskiej i ukraińskiej)." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 61, no. 4 (March 12, 2024): 153–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.855.
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The aim of this article is to explore the future human’s place, role, and status. The analysis draws on selected works of prominent modern Russian and Ukrainian writers, including science fiction authors such as Anna Starobinets, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Vladimir Sorokin, Viktor Pelevin, Boris Akunin, and Max Kidruk. The analysis concludes that amidst rapid scientific advancement, humanity may achieve potential immortality, but paradoxically, it could lose its dominant position in the world. In the post-anthropocentric era, challenges will emerge concerning human interactions with robots, androids, avatars, cyborgs, and bots, necessitating ‘negotiations’ with these entities, now perceived as full-fledged members of society.
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Spooner, Catherine. "Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption by Rob Latham (review)." Modern Language Review 99, no. 2 (April 2004): 481–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2004.a827109.
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Bell, Andrea L. "Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead: The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction by M. Elizabeth Ginway." Science Fiction Studies 49, no. 2 (July 2022): 396–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0038.
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Bordun, Troy Michael. "Marianne Kac-Vergne Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema: Cyborgs, Troopers and Other Men of the Future." Science Fiction Studies 46, no. 3 (2019): 636–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2019.0098.
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Alonso Mira, Elena. "Monstruos prehumanos y supercíborgs en la narrativa de Lina Meruane." Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana 48 (December 4, 2019): 605–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/alhi.66804.
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La producción literaria de la escritora chilena Lina Meruane se interna en el valle de los monstruos e indaga en todos aquellos rincones donde pueden acechar. Este artículo analiza las diferentes representaciones del monstruo en la obra de la joven narradora de la mano de sus personajes: niñas y adolescentes, desobedientes y en busca de una identidad que pugna por no ser categorizada. Mártires ficcionales de un mundo real, las protagonistas de Las infantas (1998) y Fruta podrida (2007) claman por revertir las normas de un mundo que va perdiendo su humanidad a favor de la tecnología. Convertirse en aquel súper cíborg, propuesto por Donna Haraway en Simians, cyborgs and women (1991), que usaba la tecnología para erradicar la desigualdad, no parece posible en una ficción en la que la realidad dictatorial todavía hace estragos en la memoria. Los personajes sucumben ante su destino. Pero su mensaje todavía existe y resiste, y la monstruosa obra de Meruane advierte, recordando la identidad original del monstruo y sus habilidades videntes.
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Yeon, Namkyung. "The Posthuman and Transboundary Imagination in Contemporary Korean Literature: Considering the Works of Pae Myŏnghun and Yun Ihyŏng." Journal of Korean Studies 23, no. 2 (October 1, 2018): 325–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/21581665-6973340.
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Abstract Literature limited to the eyes of “humanity” as created by humanism is insufficient to explore the conditions faced in the twenty-first century. The posthuman forms prevalent in contemporary South Korean literature, such as cyborgs, humanoids, and artificial intelligence, go beyond reflecting scientific developments; they operate as critical, political rhetoric with regard to discourses of modernity. This article focuses on the posthuman forms and also future time and space in Pae Myŏnghun’s and Yun Ihyŏng’s short stories in relation to critical posthumanism. Although Pae’s allegorical approach may seem somewhat simplistic, the posthuman forms that are brought to life in his works are highly innovative and effectively criticize modern systems. In contrast to Pae, Yun uses the futuristic subject to concentrate on humans, through narratives of coexistence where nonsynchronism is in operation. Yun’s narratives focus on a performative posthuman discourse that traverses gender, age, and class-based dualisms. With hybrid, multilayered, and performative identities and the transgression of boundaries, the two writers undermine the modern notion of linear, progressing time and cast doubt on notions of objectivity or totalized knowledge, urging a rethinking of the “here and now.”
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Bolton, C. A. "From Wooden Cyborgs to Celluloid Souls: Mechanical Bodies in Anime and Japanese Puppet Theater." positions: east asia cultures critique 10, no. 3 (December 1, 2002): 729–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-3-729.
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Martínez-Ramil, Pablo, Haridian Bolaños-Frasquet, and Maria Claudia Solarte-Vasquez. "Cyborgs on the horizon. Are we ready? Examining the (a)legality of transhumanist practices within the EU." European Studies 9, no. 2 (December 1, 2022): 133–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eustu-2022-0017.
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Abstract Summary Most western contemporary legal systems are grounded in natural law principles established by modern humanism even though various alternatives, post-humanism being among the most influential, start influencing their understanding. In addition, the effect of the rapid pace of technological development on humanity has made the inherent limitations of its rules and other social arrangements manifest, as the use of technology is growingly used for human enhancement. The advocacy seeking to expand the catalogue of human rights and to cover transhumanism has started to bear fruit, but more conceptual developments are needed to lay the foundations for a more systemic regulatory development. This reflection paper focuses on the use of microchip implants, from among the augmentation practices that have recently flown under the radar of legal scientific research. These electronic devices re-shape the experience of being human and their various applications suggest that the penetration levels of capacity enhancing technologies will continue to be on the rise. It will discuss and clarify whether and to which extent transhumanism, personal rights and private autonomy are connected, and the former sufficiently covered by the right to bodily integrity (RBI). The reflection will rely on a comparative and interpretative approach based on the extant literature, national and European Union (EU) regulatory initiatives, and recent doctrinal developments found in case law.
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Duda, Katarzyna. "Wirtualna rzeczywistość świata postnowoczesnego (na przykładzie wybranych utworów współczesnej literatury rosyjskiej)." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 61, no. 4 (March 12, 2024): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.847.
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The aim of the article presented here is to define virtual reality in a post-modern world in which revolutionary technological transformations are taking place before our eyes. Thus, we are witnessing the implementation into our existence of new entities created in the first instance by the sciences including information technology, biotechnology, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology. The latter fields of knowledge have become our research object, with examples drawn from selected works of contemporary Russian literature. It turns out that transhumanism in Russia has its prehistory, for example, the cosmism of Nikolai Fyodorov, and is intensively developing in the present day, for example, the organisation, the Russian Transhumanist Movement. In terms of fiction related to the desire to transform homo sapiens into homo superior, Andrei Platonov, Yevgeny Zamiatin, Mikhail Bulgakov highlight this trend. In contemporary times, the themes of transhumanism, immortalism, cryonics, and artificial intelligence have been taken up by Tatyana Tolstaya, Olga Slavnikova, Victor Pelevin, Vladimir Sorokin, among others. On the pages of their novels, they present how utopia understood as a pipe dream is transformed into utopia – an experiment. The rapid development of civilization forces us to have moral doubts: “unfrozen” after a few hundred years, man may not adapt in a new environment. Artificial intelligence threatens to transform human beings into their replicas, cyborgs, taking over people’s jobs and threatening unemployment. This in turn contradicts the idea of eternal life, raising questions about whether replicas of humans will be endowed with consciousness and emotions, or whether humans transformed from creatures to creators will still remain human.
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Dziemitko, Adriana. "„Jutro należy do kotów”. Problemy (eco) science fiction w powieści Bernarda Werbera." Literatura i Kultura Popularna 27 (December 29, 2021): 261–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0867-7441.27.18.
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Why tomorrow should not belong to humans, but to another species? Science fiction seems to answer this question with alarmingly accurate arguments. SF texts often seem like prophecies that predict the future. We most willingly accept visions in which man is the author of innovative technologies as well as cultural and economic progress. What if this development is not ascribed to the human race, but for example: to monkeys or cats? The classic repertoire of science fiction heroes, apart from humans, includes robots, cyborgs, androids or newcomers from another planet (aliens). Their humanoid character — anthropomorphic features of appearance, behavior, development of the species in the form of created (or mid creation) civilization and culture — is designed to break the anthropocentric view of man. The function of the Other in science fiction can, however, be taken over by a creature much closer and longer known to man than a newcomer from a foreign planet or a creature of highly developed technology — an animal. The essay is an attempt to analyze Bernard Werber’s novel Tomorrow the cats from the perspective of general science fiction and ecofiction issues. At the same time, the issue of species chauvinism and the ways in which it manifests itself in literature are discussed.
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Bérubé, Michael. "Disability and Narrative." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 120, no. 2 (March 2005): 568–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900167914.
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After a decade of working in disability studies, I still find myself surprised by the presence of disability in narratives I had never considered to be “about” disability—in animated films from Dumbo to Finding Nemo; in literary texts from Huckleberry Finn to Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays; and, most curiously, even in the world of science fiction and superheroes, a world that turns out to be populated by blind Daredevils, mutant supercrips, and posthuman cyborgs of all kinds. Indeed, I now consider it plausible that the genre of science fiction is as obsessed with disability as it is with space travel and alien contact. Sometimes disability is simply underrecognized in familiar sci-fi narratives: ask Philip K. Dick fans about the importance of disability in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and you'll probably get blank stares. But the Voigt-Kampff empathy test by which the authorities distinguish humans from androids was, Dick tells us, actually developed after World War Terminus to identify “specials,” people neurologically damaged by radioactive fallout, so that the state could prevent them from reproducing. That aspect of the novel's complication of the human-android distinction is lost in the film Blade Runner, but the film does give us an engineer with a disability that involves premature aging, which links him intimately to the androids who have life spans of only four years.
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Mishra, Dr Samita. "The Future of the Literary Text in the Posthuman Condition." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 7, no. 3 (2022): 073–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.73.11.
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Posthuman” does not mean after human or beyond human. It is only a reconfiguration of what it means to be human in the rapidly changing technological scenario. Though the Enlightenment concept of the human as autonomous, as a rational creature who by the use of the faculty of reason, can give any shape to the self as s/he wishes, has been discredited by Darwin’s theory of evolution, Marx’s dialectical materialism, and Freud’s psychoanalysis, yet the biological and the technological world had not infringed upon the human, thereby reducing all claims of autonomy to sarcasm, as they do in the present era. The posthuman denotes, Cary Wolfe says, “the embodiment and embeddedness of the human being is not just its biological but also its technological world (Qtd Seldon etal 284). N. Katherine Haylesin How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodie in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (1999) contends that normal human beings become post-human by using prosthetic body parts adopting computer technologies. Donna Haraway has indeed conceived of the humans as cyborgs who are part human and part machine, the machine being a prosthetic extension of the human. In this age of Information Technology and social media, a natural corollary of the posthuman condition is Digital Humanities: This essay explores how the post human condition and digital humanities impact the interactive composition and interpretation of the literary text.
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Mishra, Dr Samita. "The Future of the Literary Text in the Posthuman Condition." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 7, no. 3 (2022): 073–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.73.11.
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Posthuman” does not mean after human or beyond human. It is only a reconfiguration of what it means to be human in the rapidly changing technological scenario. Though the Enlightenment concept of the human as autonomous, as a rational creature who by the use of the faculty of reason, can give any shape to the self as s/he wishes, has been discredited by Darwin’s theory of evolution, Marx’s dialectical materialism, and Freud’s psychoanalysis, yet the biological and the technological world had not infringed upon the human, thereby reducing all claims of autonomy to sarcasm, as they do in the present era. The posthuman denotes, Cary Wolfe says, “the embodiment and embeddedness of the human being is not just its biological but also its technological world (Qtd Seldon etal 284). N. Katherine Haylesin How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodie in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (1999) contends that normal human beings become post-human by using prosthetic body parts adopting computer technologies. Donna Haraway has indeed conceived of the humans as cyborgs who are part human and part machine, the machine being a prosthetic extension of the human. In this age of Information Technology and social media, a natural corollary of the posthuman condition is Digital Humanities: This essay explores how the post human condition and digital humanities impact the interactive composition and interpretation of the literary text.
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Inbaraj, M., and Abdul Mohammed Ali Jinnah. "Posthuman Gothic and Monstrosity in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad." World Journal of English Language 12, no. 1 (March 15, 2022): 384. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v12n1p384.
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Posthuman Gothic is one of the recent emerging areas of research in the twenty-first century. It explores the different ways in which Posthuman thoughts and ideologies conflate with Gothicism in all its contemporary variations. Primarily, the posthuman gothic concerns itself with the human beings’ technological, biomedical, and supernatural experiments with the human body and consciousness that alters the human identity into the posthuman. The possibility and capability of humans to alter the human identity into something other than human or into the ‘posthuman other’ create anxiety among humans. The humans’ fear of becoming the posthuman other or encounters with the posthuman other over the course of evolution is the nucleus or the driving mechanics of the posthuman gothic genre. The Posthuman Gothic fiction deals with the scientific, technological, as well as supernatural developments on cyborgs, android robots, bio-engineered transhumans, vampires, zombies, and Frankenstein monsters in a gothic setting that opens up a dystopian posthuman future or condition. Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad deals with the Frankenstein monster kind of posthuman that kills humans and poses a threat to human lives in a post-modern gothic setting. In this paper, the researchers try to highlight the dovetailing of the posthuman thoughts with the post-modern gothic setting and the posthuman monstrosity of the posthuman other, i.e a Frankenstein monster with multiple consciousness that threatens the human identity, lives, survival, and the very existence in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad through the posthuman gothic lens.
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Rabadán, Alejandra T. "Horizonte de la Inteligencia Artificial y Neurociencias." JBNC - JORNAL BRASILEIRO DE NEUROCIRURGIA 32, no. 1 (December 14, 2021): 13–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.22290/jbnc.v32i1.1938.
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La inteligencia artificial permite que los procesos cerebrales sean analizados como procesos computacionales. Presenta dos líneas inquietantes: el Proyecto Robot, llamado androide cuando es antropomórtico, y el Proyecto Cyborg. Los robos están destinados a tareas repetitivas, riesgosas o de precisión, en las que pueden superar las limitaciones humanas, no percibiéndose conflictos éticos aunque sí nuevos desafíos en la organización social. Respecto de los androides, más allá de sus capacidades, habrá que considerar los efectos que puedan ocurrir en el ser humano durante la interacción con la máquina, como el impacto de la mímica androide sobre la emoción y estado de ánimo. Los cyborgs son criaturas compuestas por elementos orgánicos y cibernéticos cuya finalidad es emular o mejorar las capacidades de la parte orgánica. No se reconoce conflicto en su empleo para rehabilitación o para suplir funciones alteradas o ausentes; aspectos negativos serían su uso para la manipulación. Otra aplicación del proyecto cyborg a considerar es el enhancement, término utilizado en la literatura anglosajona para definir el aumento de facultades neurocognitivas o sensoriales mediante la estimulación transcraneal o intracraneal. El conflicto neuroético surge porque el objetivo no es curar sino la perfectibilidad, o nuevas modalidades de percepción. Los profesionales de la salud deben actuar en un entorno nuevo y cambiante que trasciende las neurociencias y la salud pública. El progreso continúa; por lo que se debe informar a la sociedad, anticipar dilemas, y ofrecer espacios de reflexión para la toma de decisiones individuales y para la especie humana.
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Zakharov, A. O. "Splendor and Misery of the Anthropological Crisis: A Myth of Contemporary Russian Philosophy." Concept: philosophy, religion, culture 6, no. 4 (December 20, 2022): 7–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2541-8831-2022-4-24-7-14.
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The concept of anthropological crisis is very popular in contemporary Russian humanities: the Russian Scientific Electronic Library, or Elibrary.ru, includes more than ten thousand publications with the keyword anthropological crisis. On the contrary, Google gives links to Russian publications only when one searches for anthropological crisis. This keyword has no reference in the famous online book catalogue Worldcat.org. Nowadays English-speaking scientific communities still explore the crisis in anthropology as a discipline. The difference between the anthropological crisis and the crisis in anthropology seems essential. The crisis of a scientific discipline is not a crisis of the human nature. The modern Russian academicians, including the late Vyacheslav Stepin, find many features of the anthropological crisis in the successes of genetic engineering and modern medicine as well as in the growing psychological pressures. Russian-language scholars find the traits of anthropological crisis in many fields, including studies of memory, bioethics, pedagogics, literature, and economics. The loss of the sense of life is often treated by Russian scholars, like Stepin and Boris Pruzhinin, as a trait of the anthropological crisis. The problems of self-identity are also marked by Russian authors as a mark of that crisis. Sergey Averintsev felt that human beings lack their human nature. Pruzhinin supposes humans cannot predict consequences of genetic engineering for their nature as a species. But all these trends have nothing in common with the anthropological crisis. Genetic engineering helps improving of sick human nature and self-realization. Certainly, all consequences are not open but there is no scientific discovery whose effects would be absolutely evident at once. Cyborgs are an inevitable step towards healthier and smarter humans. Existential problems are universal since the emergence of self-consciousness among the humans. Self-identities are in constant flux since the birth of complex societies, especially since the industrial revolution strengthened alienation. The growth and volume of information flows are not threats to humans as there is no necessity to memorize all the data in the world, and there are multiple network and personal filters which block garbage. The anthropological crisis seems a myth in contemporary Russian-language humanities in general and philosophy in particular.
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Persky, Julia. "Children’s literature and the posthuman: Animal, environment, cyborg." Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 19, no. 1 (March 2018): 88–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463949118762165.
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