CYBORG?“Welcome to the other side.

I welcome you here, even though you probably aren't aware that you are on it”

Cyborg Bodies & Dystopian

Are we morally mature

enough to handle our

technological

Advancements

responsibly?

And is it

really all

that bad?

Futures

Cyberpunk & The Virtual Body

• What is Cyberpunk?• Body Politics &

Capital

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LN3s3ZKK8nI

http://www.billzarchy.com/clips/clips_apple_nav_navigator.htm

Cyberpunk + Apple = Think different?

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The Virtual Body

William Gibson:

“Cyberspace as a metaphorof an immersive computerinterface that allows theextension of humanconsciousness into thetopologies of globalinformation networks,which cannot be boundedor internalized by any individual psyche”

+ Commodified Cyborg Bodies

+ The (Post) Modern Cyborg Self

+ Virtuality/Body in the Wired

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjA1gRD65iw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZgZrznl-Vs&feature=related

Prostheses & Cyborg

• Technology/media as an extension of the body apparatus: The body-technology Interface

• “Devices are all and any technologies, tools which allow interface. All devices extend and amputate us at the same time ” (McLuhan)

• Virtual world of Image and Sound = Digital Memory?

"Man has, as it were, become a sort of prosthetic God"

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7VQGcqzHrE&feature=related

Transferring ‘real’ life into the Wired

Virtual Communities• http://www.vles.com/about

Online Games• http://youtube.com/watch?v=X-wizCED5vs&feature=related • http://youtube.com/watch?v=jRTEaDdkY4A

Lain Fandom• http://www.geocities.com/ctinsanity/ • http://tundra00.tripod.com/wired/index.html

Human Consciousness & The Wired

• Lain presents the Internet as a ‘harbinger’ of a new social consciousness

• Focuses not so much on technology, but the interconnectedness between all people

• Subjectivity & notion of multiple selves

Body as Machine

Lain’s Body as interface

Humans are the ‘software’ that runs the ‘hardware’

Compression of multiple worlds into a new body - the cyborg

body

The body becomes ‘soft’ – full of data and memory

Do We Need A Body?The Wired as an upper layer of the world – Body is a

hologram of information in psyche/mindhttp://megavideo.com/?v=E02SL755

Layer 09: “…Worldwide Neural Network, a wireless network whereby all humanity would be plugged in at an unconscious level without the need of a device”

Layer 11: “The human body is nothing but a machine. If the physical limitations of the body restrict mankind’s evolution...”

Layer Suicide: “Look at me, im committing suicide: http://youtube.com/watch?v=9f6jRQ-SLI0