9th week

Ninth week summary(“human”)
The wheel is an extension of the foot. Then all media are extension of some human faculty. (Meaning of the extension is just improving) We can know events of other countries in the morning by newspaper. It is extension. Also, we can see the media as prostheses. We can see a disabled using the medium like a artificial leg. It is also displacement, not a replacement. In fact, people were negative about them. However, it is changing. They are thinking that it is another art. Thus they envy them. Then, these disabled has a another sense because tools are attached to their body. Thus they started to be comfortable but now if it is nothing, they cannot live.
We can think about identity. Race, class, gender, sexuality, and a set of other social, political, cultural and economic differences separate us. Ok, so who is a woman? Who is a man? Can we define that? Who is black? Who is white? Who is rich? Who is poor? It is too hard that define the these problems. Then these situations are natural? It makes us to be not comfortable. As a result, we do mix the something. We can see the chimera. {A fabled fire-breathing monster of Greek mythology, with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail (or according to others with the heads of a lion, a goat, and a serpent), killed by Bellerophon.} Nowadays, we can see the cyborg. A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. From one perspective, a cyborg world is about the final imposition of a grid of control on the planet, about the final abstraction embodied in a Star Wars apocalypse waged in the name of defense, about the final appropriation of women’s bodies in a masculinist orgy of war. From another perspective, a cyborg world might be about lived social and bodily realities in which people are not afraid of their joint kinship with animals and machines, not afraid of permanently partial identities and contradictory standpoints. Following is the standard of cyborg.
• do you wear a prosthesis? e.g., do you wear contact lenses or eyeglasses?
• do you take any medications?
• have you ever had an immunization?
• do you depend upon any form of technology for transportation?
• how would your life be affected if the power grid was shut off permanently?
• do you ever eat food or drink water that has been processed?
• in short, how intimately tied are you to technology?
My opinion
I had a impression from separation. I thought and looked around. It is true. This world try to separate us but it can be the bias. Course of German students are determined by teachers. I don’t agree that. Then I did know that I am a cyborg because I am wearing a glasses. I can think about ‘hybrid’. I think that all the people will get the new own sense by cyborg in the future.