A concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied. This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI.
Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory. Drawing on their combined decades of training, teaching, and research in the social sciences, design, and engineering education, Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau introduce an approach called
critical cyborg literacy. Critical cyborg literacy foregrounds power dynamics and pays attention to the ways that social and cultural factors such as gender, race, and disability shape how technology is imagined, developed, used, and resisted.
Forlano and Glabau offer critical cyborg literacy as a way of thinking through questions about the relationship between humanity and technology in areas such as engineering and computing, art and design, and health care and medicine, as well as the social sciences and humanities.
Cyborg examines whether modern technologies make us all cyborgs--if we consider, for instance, the fact that we use daily technologies at work, have technologies embedded into our bodies in health care applications, or use technology to critically explore possibilities as artists, designers, activists, and creators. Lastly,
Cyborg offers perspectives from critical race, feminist, and disability thinkers to help chart a path forward for cyborg theory in the twenty-first century.
一本簡明介紹「半機械人理論」的書籍，探討科技如何與政治和身體相關聯。
這本「半機械人理論」的介紹提供了一個批判性的觀點，用於分析自動化、機器人和人工智慧等新興技術的主張。從女性主義半機械人理論的角度，「半機械人」分析並重新定義了關於半機械人的流行和學術對話。Laura Forlano和Danya Glabau在社會科學、設計和工程教育的訓練、教學和研究中結合了數十年的經驗，介紹了一種被稱為「批判性半機械人素養」的方法。批判性半機械人素養突出了權力動態，並關注社會和文化因素（如性別、種族和殘疾）如何塑造科技的想像、開發、使用和抵抗。
Forlano和Glabau將批判性半機械人素養提供作為一種思考人類與科技關係的方式，涵蓋了工程和計算、藝術和設計、醫療保健和醫學，以及社會科學和人文學科等領域。「半機械人」探討現代科技是否使我們都成為半機械人，例如，我們在工作中使用日常科技，將科技嵌入身體中的醫療應用，或者作為藝術家、設計師、行動者和創作者以批判性方式探索可能性。最後，「半機械人」提供了來自批判種族、女性主義和殘疾思想家的觀點，以幫助在21世紀為半機械人理論開拓前進的道路。
Laura Forlano is Professor in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University. She is a coeditor of three books: digitalSTS, and Bauhaus Futures and From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen (both MIT Press).
Danya Glabau is Industry Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology, Culture and Society at the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University. She is the author of Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care.
Laura Forlano是東北大學藝術、媒體和設計學院的教授。她是三本書的共同編輯: 《digitalSTS》、《Bauhaus Futures》和《From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen》（都是MIT Press出版）。
Danya Glabau是紐約大學坦頓工程學院科技、文化和社會學系的產業助理教授。她是《Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care》的作者。
