Hey guys
I have found the blogging experience this semester super fun! I was pretty sceptical at the start of the semester as I am extremely technically inept. But I thought it was a really great means of expressing our ideas to an extent that is not always possible during tutorials. I also really liked having the opportunity to contemplate other people’s tutorial presentations as I think it provided for more insightful discussion within the tutorial group.
I liked that this unit was very different from all my other units, the issues discussed this semester related to everyday situations which made participating in this unit actually useful. I feel that studying women studies and the representations of gender empowers women, in a way that provokes a critique of societal structure and the way gender is constructed within it.
As to whether I believe myself to be a cyborg? I do not. I am not denying that cyborg, a hybrid of human and machine, is not an interesting concept. However I do not consider myself to be in any way part machine. Whilst I don’t deny that a significant part of our lives revolves around online interaction, I feel that this does not give rise to the idea that therefore the computer is an almost virtual limb. I believe that human and machines are separate, and although Donna Harraway’s “cyborg” is interesting notion, I think it is one that is purely that, a notion, not a reality.