“Cyborg Manifesto”
Honestly, I wanted to understand and get something from this reading, but nearly every bit of it went way over my head. However; I do have a bit to comment on.
“Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.” I’m not sure where I originally heard this, but I definitely recognize it from somewhere, possibly another New Media course. It’s a striking quote, and I believe it’s relevant to something we often discuss in class. When technology is developed that augments one of our senses, something (one of our other senses, perhaps) is degraded as a result. I think this connects to the aforementioned quote from the Cyborg Manifesto in the way that the machines are becoming “disturbingly lively,” while inversely, we are becoming “frighteningly inert.”