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Against Social Constructionist Cyborgian Territorializations

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Cyberpsychology

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What do we know about cyborgs? We know that ‘cyborg’ is a neologism formed by the fusion of the terms ‘cybernetics’ and ‘organism’, coined by Clynes and Kline (1960). We know that cyborg is a metaphor (Haraway, 1991; Piscitelli, 1995; Wolmark, 1995), that it speaks of what we are becoming; it speaks of the transgression of boundaries and of a way of breaking through old limits; between the modern oppositions ‘I/other’, ‘mind/body’, ‘culture/nature’, ‘man/woman’, ‘civilized/primitive’, ‘reality/appearance’, ‘whole/part’, and so on. We also know that the cyborg can develop into a discipline of knowledge, such as cyberanthropology (Escobar, 1996).

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  1. Francisco Javier Tirado
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Sociology IV at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

    Ángel J. Gordo-López (Assistant Lecturer, member of the Discourse Unit) (Assistant Lecturer, member of the Discourse Unit)

  2. Discourse Unit, Bolton Institute, UK

    Ian Parker (Professor of Psychology, directs the MSc Critical Psychology programme and is managing editor of the Annual Review of Critical Psychology) (Professor of Psychology, directs the MSc Critical Psychology programme and is managing editor of the Annual Review of Critical Psychology)

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© 1999 Francisco Javier Tirado

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Tirado, F.J. (1999). Against Social Constructionist Cyborgian Territorializations. In: Gordo-López, Á.J., Parker, I. (eds) Cyberpsychology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27667-7_12

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