This week the reading has been quite tough for me as I have never quite understand feminism and capitalism let alone socialism and politics. The closest I’ve come across cyborg is from watching Star Trek, Terminator, Star Wars, I Robot and etc, but not actually analysed them as Haraway did.
I’ve used Facebook this week more compared to other applications to reflect on my reading as I go along.
Also used of Youtube to find any related videos to help my understanding of the topic this week – Cyborg.
I’ve been using my delicious account a lot more this week too compared to previous weeks as I found a number of articles which I have found relevant and interesting for the course not just the Cyborg week.
Not so much on Twitter as I found it frustrating with its word limit. Perhaps I should include this as part of my ethnography which was also brought up by one of the “commentor”.
What frustrate me so far studying this course is when human still wanted to practice power (dystopia?). Power to control others, especially on how others use the technology for a good cause. For example, I went to a LRC forum: The impact of technology to the Library and its profession. There are a few wifi services available but none that I could have access to. Surely there is a way to overcome the security issue if that is the reason why it’s not being public. So there I was sitting with my technology (IPod touch) try to Tweet my reflections of the forum to give some spice to my followers but I could only do the notes offline. It is not the same as it has to be spur of the moment – even with blog! With technology most of the time (in my experience) when things went wrong usually are caused by human error.
Is this one of the reason what Haraway trying to point out in her reading – to make the human better by creating cyborg?
