The Cyborg (n.) is a coupling between an organism and machine such that it offers the possibility of criticizing and reconstructing that which is assumed to be natural and inevitable, thus permitting us to reconsider our relationship with the worlds of the natural and the mechanical.
The Cyborg (n.) is a creature in a post-gender world. It has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity.
The Cyborg (n.) is a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.
The Cyborg (n.) is a hybrid of machine and organism, of social reality as well as of fiction.
The Cyborg (n.) is a hybrid of machine and organism, organic and mechanic, thus rendering non-essential crusty binaries like nature/culture, fact/value, pure/contaminated, inorganic/organic, and real/artificial. The cyborg representative of our technoscientific moment.
The Cyborg (n.) is resolutely committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity.
The Cyborg (n.) is responsible for a boundary breakdown between human and animal, creature and machine, real creature and fictional creature.
The Cyborg (n.) will change what counts as experience' for women in the late twentieth century.