Monday, March 16, 2009

My term paper and its content

My paper is going well. The first half of my paper aims to define what cyborg rhetoric is, and to do this i use Haraway and Aristotle as my back up. I used the following terms to link cyborg and rhetoric together immersion, representation, reflexivity, language, image, inscription, prosthesis, self, technology, and embodiment.
In the second half of my paper i focused on writing a cyborg rhetoric in which i used blogging, texting, and the world wide media as examples.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

What is (A) cyborg rhetoric?

To quote Dona Haraway, a cyborg rhetoric is: “A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction” (Haraway). Now, my definition of cyborg rhetoric: the use of texts or the internet to argue a point or to prove a point, or simply weaving my way through a book as words run through my brain, and as I make sense out of them I am demonstrating a form of cyborg rhetoric. The internet is a great example of cyborg rhetoric as it is all texts based; chat rooms such LamdaMoo are great examples of cyborg rhetoric, because they too are all texts based.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

What does it mean to be human and conscious?

I arrived at the conclusion that humans were not programmed to be consciously aware of what they are doing 24/7 around the clock, because if humans are constantly aware of their conscious then they are a lot like computers and maybe even machines. Computers are programmed to perform certain tasks that humans command them to perform, and follow instructions very well such evidence makes the following claim: computers were designed to always be consciously aware of their performance ITS A MACHINE! Humans, on the flip side, were not made nor were they programmed to be conscious around the clock because they cannot act, they cannot be, they cannot perform when they are constantly critiquing themselves as such an act takes over the mind and the body.