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Citizen as a System

CYBORGS. Citizen as a System. Introduction. Contemporary Bodies Liminal Habitats One: a rather post-modern place delimited by the ins and outs of Performativity Two: a post-human place, between natural and constructed physicality. Illustration Liminal Habitat One:

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Citizen as a System

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  1. CYBORGS Citizen as a System

  2. Introduction Contemporary Bodies • Liminal Habitats • One: • a rather post-modern place delimited by the ins and outs of Performativity • Two: • a post-human place, between natural and constructed physicality

  3. Illustration • Liminal Habitat One: • 'Metropolis', Fritz Lang's 1920's silent movie • 'Metropolis', Kaos Theatre’s 1999 stage adaptation • Liminal Habitat Two: • Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation (DARPA) • Australian Performance Artist: Stelarc • Brazilian Interactive Artist: Eduardo Kac.

  4. Intent: to shed light on • core conundrum of the sociology of the body • our tenacious physicality • core performative cross-boundary site • the cyborg phenomenon Confront what we take for granted : • that our bodies and our selves are indivisible.

  5. Lang's Metropolis • A metaphor for the postmodern liminal habitat between agency and structure. • A story of a futuristic city built upon the shoulders of slave labour.

  6. The rich elite above, and the poor workers below: this is a theme which resurfaces time and again • Choice, freedom, and individualism of the lofty elite • Ignorance, drudgery, and prescribed existence of the amorphous masses below.

  7. Maria Klein • Jon Fredersen's son • Resolution in the liminal space between them. • An agent of social construction • A paragon of the socially constructed.

  8. The workers They move in a dance-like rhythm in tune with the machines

  9. Foucauldian technologies of the body • prisoners doing Public Works • Huxley's Deltas • Pre-existing roles • Citation • Failure of the Body

  10. Early scene in the workers' part of the city • Fredersen's son

  11. The vision of MOLOCH!' - God of Fire! • This scene is the motivational core of the whole story: • The failure of the body.

  12. The failure of the human body • Cyberpunk • Control mechanisms • law-abiding citizenship, • sanity • health • sexuality

  13. Fredersen's son and Maria Klein change the rules of their society force mechanisation into a human mould. Fredersen and his mystic inventor, Rotwang intent on creating a new workforce more suited to further mechanisation.

  14. Rotwang • Frankenstein • Pentacle • Essence of life • Golem

  15. Magical / Occult • Modern / Scientific • Management & worker theme • A machine in the image of man • Rotwang’s prosthetic hand

  16. Brain & Hands & Heart of the city • city understood through image of the body • Failure of body : failure of city • evil plot to do away with bodies • heroic hope of divine intervention • Rotwang to make a robot Maria

  17. The making of the robot • False-Maria the whore

  18. Destabilisation • we both have and are bodies • Grammar • Having / being / doing

  19. The Kaos Metropolis • The Morticians • Direct action • Choreography of images

  20. The body • The physicality of death • The story has become a war over the body, about the body, and fought with bodies.

  21. City / body • "The greatest acrobats of change are the dead." • Rotwang the geneticist

  22. Age demographics • The genatoid Maria • Genetic weaponry • This story is a fight over bodies, about bodies, with newly created bodies

  23. Birth of the genatoid • Physical presence • Mediated view • representation of representation

  24. What is the real body? • distorting lens • Death of Rotwang • killed by the human he has cloned • disruption of liminal habitat • ontological discomfort

  25. Posthumanism • A new liminal space • Reproductive technology • Twins • ‘Life not worthy to be lived’ • Posthuman liminal habitat

  26. Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation

  27. Soldier as a System • Land Warrior System • Starship Trooper • Armor

  28. Wave/particle duality • Era of code • Dolly the Clone • People : code

  29. Zoque babies • Stelarc’s extra ear

  30. Obsolete body • Post-evolutionary experiments • Technological determinism / pragmatic cynicism

  31. Eduardo Kac • Interactive Art • Time Capsule • Implants/Neuro-prosthetics

  32. Conclusion • Dehumanisation • Zoque babies • Kosovo • Eggs • Posthuman liminal habitat • Postevolutionary experiments • Ecosystem

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