Cyborg Femme, copyright litmuse from Flickr
Accidentally I stumbled upon an old research project which I prepared for a course titled Gender, Photography and New Technologies while studying for my Masters at Goldsmiths College, Univ. of London in 1999. It was published by the then uber e-magazine called ZAYAC in Macedonia of which I was a contributor. 11 years on and still highly relevant. “While the science fiction cyborgs are described as strong, powerful, supernatural and artificial human-machines, the phenomenon called online communication has produced new form of disembodied cyborgs. But, this can lead to loosing control over the actual ’self’ and the line between imagination and reality is blurred” says the research. 
From Cyber Femme and androids, to Military / Medicine Cyborgs and self-run computers, read my debate on Cyborg in Science Fiction and Cyborg in Social Realm.
* Perhaps I should continue the debate with Cyborg in Nature (after seeing AVATAR last week), so watch this space…
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