Most of Week 8 was spend drowning in the feminist cyborg world of Haraway! I was none the wiser after two readings. I did pick a lot up from links other people tweeted though. Luckily the Hayles’ reading wasn’t as dense. I need to add some more thoughts to these ideas behind cyborgs and posthumanism. I can’t seem to critique it at the moment though as I’m still trying to grasp some of it and I don’t just want to repeat what some of the papers say.
I did do a good bit of websearching around cyborgs and that. I think I came across Kevin Warwick in another module a few years ago. It’s an interesting perspective he has- maybe for some it is a bit taboo at the moment with opinions and a standpoint that is too futuristic and ‘out there’. But as technology ‘colonises our daily life’ it will be inevitable that implants in the body will move on from those with medical benefits or cosmetic purposes.
Again most of my lifestream feeds have been from Delicious, Twitter and Youtube or blog posts. Over the last few weeks I’ve tried to vary them, but found that I end up purposely trying to find things from different sources- I don’t just want to search Flickr for ‘cyborg’ and feed the result if it means nothing to me. I suppose I’m sticking to what I would normally use outside of the course. Will make another effort over the coming weeks though for a bit of variation.