From: Graham John Sharpe <gsharpe-AT-sfu.ca>
Subject: Re: "Towards a New Nomadism" : cyborg poetry, lemurs, etc.
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 20:05:54 -5600 (PST)


Karen,

I'm fond of both the Braidotti article and lemurs, tho i'm not sure
i'm that familiar with either to speak at length.

Harraway's notion of the cyborg is extremely intreaging. i wonder
then, if the cyborg "is a figure of interrelationality, receptivity
and global communication that deliberately blurs categorical
distinctions (human/machine, nature/culture, male/female,
Oedipal/non-Oedipal)" does it somehow operate outside the regular
flows of "de" and "re"-territorialization. is it the "ultimate" or
"perfect" subject for Harraway? by all accounts it would seem to
inhabit the "in-between zones" of binaries.

Is the cyborg then a model of "the rhizomatic construction" which
"implies a new connection between lived experience and the activity
of the critical intelligence"? could someone speak more about what
Bradiotti means by "rhizomatic construction"?

more questions than answers i suppose. i've been wanting to pick up
_The Cyborg Handbook_ (Harraway) but it hasnt been essential to my
current work so is outside of my wallets reach.

graham

oh, and yes, the above 2 quotes come from the Bradiotti article.
pages 180 and 176 respectively. (from _Gilles Deleuze and the Theatre
of Philosophy_).


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