HIST 3838 Lecture 1: HIST 3838 - Lecture 22 Class Notes (Mar 17)
20 Mar 2017
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Cyborg athletics: technology, therapy, and genetics in an era of capitalized sport. Athletic bodies marked by class, nation, race: class. Working class (skilled, semi-skilled, unskilled: nation, race /ethnicity. Cyborg athletics: technology and the athletic body, speed, vitamins, selzers, and elixers, sport medicine, international sport organization and regulation, contemporary doping and testing, state sponsored doping, complicity. Athletic bodies have been marked not only through gender, nation, gender etc, but also through technology: cyborg is an organism with enhanced functions or abilities due to technology (ex. Metal in you: noun a person whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device, origin - 1960-65; cyb (ernetic) org (anism) Cyborg athletics: can argue that all athletes have been cyborg one way or another. If the definition of a cyborg was a creature who used technology and science to enhance their abilities above normal, then all successful athletes in the.
