Kyborg aneb cesta tam a zase zpátky

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Title in English Cyborg, or There and Back Again
Authors

MACEK Jakub

Year of publication 2011
Type Chapter of a book
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

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Description Cyborg – a theoretical concept developed within the field of cybernetics – shaped the discourses surrounding new media profoundly. Since early 1960s, the concept of cyborg has lived its symbolic life that could serve as a symptomatic parallel to the cultural development of new, digital communication technologies. Cyborg has changed from strictly cybernetic concept to a popcultural, fictional phenomenon, poststructuralist and feminist micropolitical project of new, hybrid identity as well as to a symptom of enthusiasic technoopismism of the early 1990s. The text deals with the mutual relaion between the history of new media, the history of cyborg – and the history of new media studies. The chapter is conceived as a kind of footnote illustrating the ways in which our cultural relation to the new communicaion technologies has been transforming during last 40 years.

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