Cyborg Cultures

Cyborg: A cybermetic organism/ a hybrid of machine and organism/ a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction

The word ‘robot’ was not introduced till 1920s.

Cyborg moves: unsettling the rules- focusing on woman empowerment.

“The Cyborg Manfesto” – Donna Haraway, 1985

Movie1: Metropolis (robot: Maria)

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Boundaries between Human and Non-Human?

• Emotions? cyborgs in AI (David and Joe) and Metropolis (Maria)