Eventually, it comes to Week 12 (this should be my last post here =P). Throughout the semester, I have learnt a lot about the concept of ‘cyborg’ which is regarded as a hybrid of machine and organism in general. Given by Donna Haraway manifesto, the advent of cyborg has probably broken down traditional universal dualism, such as Animal and Human as well as Body/Mind etc. Indeed, people nowadays are becoming ‘cyborgs’. Technology has already become our part of life, and we definitely cannot live without it. Take myself as an example, I did once forget to bring my mobile phone; I was deeply worried and anxious at the time. Even I was on the way school, I returned and went back home just to pick up my phone. It seems that my whole life cannot be ‘well-functioned’ if my mobile phone, computer is gone away. Undoubtedly, I regard myself as a cyborg. However, for the observation that people have more and more leaned on the technologies, this is worthwhile to do further discussion on the ‘dead’ of face-to-face communication and other aspects like what we have roughly come up with during the course, for instants, virtual ethics, friendship, work and play.
In addition, regarding the whole unit, what I feel really excited and interesting is we can exchange our ideas online. Inside the room where both belong to us and the public, we can leave our own comments/feedbacks/as well as share news or videos at random (although we are forced to do so XD), this is really a brand new learning mode for me. However, the given concepts are in fact abstract. To be frank, I am sometimes confused to linger the unknowns. Moreover, the research essay FRUSTRATED me so much in terms of the guiding questions and the 50% weight. Yet, generally, I do think Self.net is an interesting but at the same time a challenging course.
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