| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 電訊傳播研究所 === 91 === The phrase Cyborg was first appeared in the 60’s, it mapped a brand-new kind of body structure. In the words of Clynes and Kline, “cybernetic organism” was a new kind of spaceman with elf-regulating device implanted. However, under the popular culture, the cyborg image has become violent robots and often full of masculinity. In the 80’s, Haraway rediscovered this term again. Played as a feminism icon image in the works of Haraway, cyborg steps into the next stage of theorizing. By and large, cyborgs in the classic or post-modern context are about changes in the structures.
Not by talking directly about the images of cyborg, this study is arranged in a different way. Since “Organism” and “Cybernetics” were the basic components of the vocabulary “cyborg”, then it makes me wonder if it would be a meaningful way to study cyborg by means of looking at theory of cybernetics and organism separately? Seldom was there studies talk about cyborg with this sort of perspective, therefore, by trying the new approach, hopefully a cyborg view that passes the boundaries of human and machine could be built up.
Actually, right from the beginning, cyborg was always tightly attached to technologies. And if contemporary society is the case, then computers and the Internet are two major technologies that can not be missed out. As a tunnel of communication, spacial virtuality is one of the characters of the Internet. Could spacial theories be mixed in understanding the cyborg, it would be another question.
By organism theories, this study not only link it with techno-society, but also discover a few levels of it. By cybernetics, the classic and post-cybernetics are discussed then find it coherence with the cultural history. By space theories of the Internet, three main fields are identified, and each of it represents a different tradition of Internet knowledge. Finally, based on the bio-function of organism, there should be a new closed boundaries which composed of both human and machine in the post-cybernetics systems. And different Internet space theories should be used as indexes as constructing the whole cyborg knowledge.
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