Publication details
Kyborg aneb cesta tam a zase zpátky
| Title in English | Cyborg, or There and Back Again |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Cyborg – a theoretical concept developed within the field of cybernetics – shaped the discourses surrounding new media profoundly. Since early 1960s, the concept of cyborg has lived its symbolic life that could serve as a symptomatic parallel to the cultural development of new, digital communication technologies. Cyborg has changed from strictly cybernetic concept to a popcultural, fictional phenomenon, poststructuralist and feminist micropolitical project of new, hybrid identity as well as to a symptom of enthusiasic technoopismism of the early 1990s. The text deals with the mutual relaion between the history of new media, the history of cyborg – and the history of new media studies. The chapter is conceived as a kind of footnote illustrating the ways in which our cultural relation to the new communicaion technologies has been transforming during last 40 years. |