Course Reflection and Evaluation

This is indeed a very interesting course, which has broadened my point of view.
The use of blog is indeed very useful for students, people can comment back and forth with each other and sharing their ideas and experience within this blog. And to be honest, the assignment of Webliography is indeed a good practice of all of our students, I have a feeling that most of the students began to understand the idea of Cyborg after that assignment. :)
It has given all students a chance to participate in during their rather busy schedules; blog does provide us an alternate way of engaging into intellectual activities.


As we are growing to be more intimate with technology, it becomes an essential part of our daily life. For instance, without the help of computer, we wouldn't able to be on here and share our experiences. From socializing with friends, to being on Webct to attend I lecture..etc. Every human who jacks in has immediately transformed into a cyborg, soon enough, we might routinely put them inside our bodies and brains as an inevitable process. We can see many example of how scientists engaged in developing new technology that can make us become of part of machine. I.E. from installing chips into body which directly link to computer ( Mind computer research to a trendy Iphone culture. I do believe we will become ultimately more become an non-biological being in the soon future.

As technology became our routine of daily life, it is important to understand Technology not only help us improve the quality of life, but also show us the discourse of disemboidment.
As Manuel Castells stated that, we were moving in the direction of a culture founded on a “space of flows”, which replaced the " space of places and timeless time". With all these transformation, the dominant narrative of cyborg culture has given us a culture of disembodiment. In such a technological age, we are more liley made out of “information , rather than bodies and physicality.

Moreover, it blurs the boundary between authenticy and “real”, in which it also bring out the new circumstance of virtual ethnic and the new possibility of gender relation in society.
As Haraway stated in her “A Manifesto for Cyborgs", she stated that, cyborg broke down the traditional point of view of Woman and Nature, it actually could release female which imposed by patriarchal society. For instance, women were able to use private sphere I.E. Internet ( showing their body under their will powers), to become their own platform of public sphere, or a female could be a male on internet as the person’s new identity, all of these examples showed that cyborg helped us to negotiate within the dominant patriarchy society.

Chen Yi Chen, Rebecca 10465704