CYBORGS (January 11, 2010)
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The document discusses the history and concepts of cyborgs and cybernetics. It notes that ENIAC, built in 1946, was the first general-purpose electronic computer capable of being reprogrammed. It also discusses cybernetics pioneer Norbert Wiener's view that gun aiming involves integrated human and machine control systems. Finally, it defines a cyborg as a cybernetic organism and asks the reader to consider if and how they might be a cyborg.
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CYBORGS (January 11, 2010)
- 1. CYBORGS January 12, 2010
- 3. cybernetics communication + control systems
- 4. computer ENIAC [Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer] was the first general-purpose electronic computer... capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems... ENIAC was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory... announced in 1946 it was heralded in the press as a "Giant Brain.” [Wikipedia]
- 5. the antiaircraft gun is not an isolated mechanism.... The gun pointer is a human element.... The actual fire control is a system involving human beings and machines at the same time. It must be reduced, from an engineering point of view, to a single structure, which means either a human interpretation of the machine, or a mechanical interpretation of the operator, or both. (67-68)
- 13. late capitalism http://spaceandculture.org - 06/2006
- 14. postmodernism from Alexandre Syrota on flickr
- 15. third-wave feminism from tomswift46 on flickr
- 16. Are YOU a cyborg? when/where/how?
Editor's Notes
- Cyborg, or cybernetic organism In a larger sense about the interfaces between technologies and ideas, between humans and machines
- started during WWII (like the internet) fundamentally different way of thinking about machines
- Programmable machine vs. single-purpose machine self-regulating system linked to environment rather than particular observable results (note woman programmer)
- Weiner tells the origin story of his theory of cybernetics -- military problem of ballistics Came to seem that there wasn’t much difference in the way machine systems work and the way human systems work
- End of autonomy
- i.e. Wiener’s scientific ethics (averting a doomsday scenario) PAUSE FOR QUESTIONS
- BRAINSTORM: what is a cyborg (according to Haraway) -- what boundaries does it cross? this is a dense and highly intertextual text -- going to try to explain some broad concepts that it relies on
- Haraway’s informatics of domination
- AFFINITY politics (could have done separate slide) On to Haraway’s intervention... Important: BOTH domination and resistance in one Legacy of cyborg theory Call back to cybernetics