Comments on: Cyborg life through Aimee Mullins’ eyes

By: alip

alip — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:05:06 +0000

I’ve only just stumbled across your blog posting and have to say it’s a great find – a fascinating series of articles. I found the idea that ’someone’ might detune your prosthesis/enhacement quite scary. To excel in what you do, to try hard to get there, is a wonderful thing but to think there may be limits imposed by some ‘other’ who will tell you “no, that’s as far as you’re going, this is the best you can be allowed to do” is alarming. It’s like a twisted version of an old joke I remember about when a person who has broken their arm or wrist asking their doctor if they will be able to play the violin or piano when they recover, only in this case the answer would be “yes, but we’re not going to let you”.

By: tracy

tracy — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:32:34 +0000

also interesting was that fact that a large number of her pro commentators were focussed (directly or indirectly) on how great she looked in her bikini – humanity 1: haraway 0

By: jen

jen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:20:33 +0000

*fascinating* find, Tracy, and a great post – I am very taken with the idea that we would like disabled bodies to become invisible, perhaps, though the use of enhancements, but not hyper-visible through improvements on the able body. It links for me with the conversation Sarah P and I were having about post-gender – whether it means the erasure of difference or the proliferation of difference. Very cool trains of thought coming through the blogs in this block.