Tuesday, October 17, 2006

cyborg and struggle

cyberspace and its struggle.
Cyberspace is a fictional term coined by novelist Wiliam Gibson (1984) to describe a virtual reality where people log their minds into computer technologies capable of entering perceiving and exploring the data matrix. However, in the nonfictional world, cyberspace is a metaphor - a consensual hallucination that refers to a virtually incomprehensible and seemingly endless array of computer-mediated electronic communication and supporting technologies.
D. Haraway argues that the boundary between the Science fiction novel and the reality is just mere visual illusion and cyberspace blurs the boundary between the physical world and non-physical world . She put high value on Cyborg as a hybrid creature which is a combination of the mechanism with organism in the post -gender world. Females can have new possibilities by combining with machine, increasing their power . The shift of the concept from female object to Cyborg represents the shift from the passiveness to activeness . It has gone through changes ; from controlling to being controlled. It is the reiteration of 'the second gender' what Simond de Boubour said, The female cyborg is disintegrated and remanufactured persona, challenging the existing discriminative order. Women who are feeling oppressed can resist in cyberspace. The movie Matrix represented the cyber world. In cyber world, the boundary between manufacture of the cyber world and the objects being manufactured. The mechanic world is transformed into system world and cyborg. Between ARCHITECT, the manufacturer and SMITH , NEO is struggling for its identity and free will. It is the representation of the desire for new world without oppression, free from control. We need new point of the view of the world in cyber world. The developing new technology has to bring about the change of the paradigm of gender. Cyberspace is a good space for representing the oppression in the real world. It has new possibilities to create the concept of changes of gender, otherness and equality. Some Hollywood movies such Matrix depict the struggle between computer world and human world and resistance to the limit of the ego and its recognition. Now they are still going on ..

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