English 1028F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cyborg, Neuromancer, Facebuster
18 Oct 2016
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The cyborg is typically thought of being a male, technologically advanced human: started by mary shelley. The cyborg offers a new way to consider identity for women. The cyborg celebrates multiplicity over the conventional self that is. The cyborg belongs to no one including itself. The cyborg deals with becoming rather than being. But he is called the flatliner because he kept dying. When you jack in your nervous system is directly connected to the etherworld. The defense systems that big corporations use to protect their data is that they will send an electrical shock through the internet into your brain and it fries you. This has happened to polly several times and he becomes braindead. A big corporation downloaded the complete consciousness of polly. Polly now exists in a harddrive that can be connected to a computer: a virtual construct, a virtual personality. The human as resource for the digital.
