#cyborgism

[orpheuslament]

3! for book asks

3. what were your top five books of the year?

in no particular order: deaf republic by ilya kaminsky, half-light by frank bidart, caín by josé saramago, youngman: selected diaries of lou sullivan & antigone by jean anouilh

[mr--------friend]

Beware not to use the future as an excuse to ignore living in the present. Instead, pretend that tomorrow is today.

Neil Harbisson 

[librarycards]

Xenoestrogenic, even without the prefix trans-, is already an overgrown, weedy keyword sinking heterogeneous taproots into the histories, politics, and embodiments of life on planet Earth. Hence my recourse to etymology. It is an adjectival form of xenoestrogen: that is, an estrogen anthropocentrically and racially marked as “foreign” or “alien,” which includes those estrogens belonging to plants (phytoestrogens) and fungi (mycoestrogens) as well as various kinds of synthetic estrogens (e.g., Bisphenol A). The xenoestrogenic tangles with the more familiar rootstock of steroidal estrogens — estrone, estradiol, and estriol — that have come to define the female sex hormone. It therefore twines itself with the lives of transwomen who situate themselves within the milieu of hormonal transition or “hormone replacement therapy” (HRT). Prefixing trans- to xeno- produces fruitful tension. Trans- further concatenates the oversimplified alienations and -phobias connected to xeno- by enacting “movements-across-into-strangeness” that foster new conjugations, allowing xeno- to suggest alternate worldings rather than marking a discontinuous zone of incommensurable and inaccessible difference (King 2012). Trans-ing xeno- unsettles the oversimplified Others necessary for the production of stratification and disallowance, without in the process destroying difference and the ethics of encounter. Transxenoestrogenesis, a word with prefixes like nerve endings, recapitulates the syntax of sensate life folding over itself, invaginating itself, to encounter its own materiality.

Eva Hayward, Transxenoestrogenesis.

[gothcarmelasoprano]

transhuman, moon ribas (2018)

[skybrarian]

The flaming signs of the Universe hidden from our senses will flash before man's spectroscopic eye in their infinite variety, and the voice of the elements will penetrate audibly to his spectroscopic ear. A new and strange communion between him and Nature will lavish its cornucopia of chemical secrets, of which our painfully acquired science does not even dream, on the man of the future.

Desiderius Papp, "Creations Doom" (1934) page 100.

[badlandgames-blog]

“It’s in our Nature to want to rise above our limits. Think about it. We were cold, so we harnessed fire. We were weak, so we invented tools. Every time we met an obstacle, we used creativity and ingenuity to overcome it. The cycle is inevitable… but will the outcome always be good? I guess that will depend on how we approach it.“ – Adam Jensen, Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Cyborgism 11:10 Cyborgs are organisms composed of both organic and mechanical parts. Even today we can see the beginnings of cyborgism – patients wear prosthetics, receive artificial organs or take on implants such as hearing aids. These are the early pioneers of cyborgism.

[theeditorandnarratorcollaborate]

‘”Cyborg” is a loaded and attention-grabbing term, bearing associations from sci-fi novels and Hollywood, and whether it’s an entirely accurate label for these activities is up for debate. Some commentators broaden the definition to include anyone who uses artificial devices, such as computer screens or iPhones. Others prefer to narrow it. As early as 2003, in an article entitled “Cyborg morals,…

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