Am I a cyborg?
The question that whether human beings and technology can be separated had already came into my mind before I get in touch with this unit. As in nowadays, compare to the past, we are now all dependent on technology in most of the moments of our lives. Once a technological device is ruined or missing, for example, mobile phone or Internet, humans live will be seriously affected, as well as the organization of our economic and social system. With this unit, the concept of Cyborg was first introduced into my mind, while at the same time, it did helped me to think more in-depth about the relationship between human and technology.
I regard myself as a cyborg, for the situation that I am currently engaging in an environment surrounded by the high-technology. As in the past and places that are under-developed, humans dependency on the advanced technology will not be that high. In this situation, the line between human and technology is very obvious that they are two separate things. The influences bring to each other are quite little as well. So if I am in that situation, I think there is still a distance for me to see myself as cyborg. However, it is already too difficult for me to don't interact with technology, either intentionally or vice versa. My social network is connected by mobile phones, blogs, facebook and emails. My knowledge and information of society and the outside world are based on the Internet, TV, radio broadcast. Without technology, one is not participating with the society that he is in. Here at this point, I do agree and inspired a lot from the cyborg concepts of Katherine Hayles.
The use of blogs for learning purposes
It is the first time for me to use a blog as a part of learning process in a unit. The blog was quite useful for students to have discussion on each other's work. It provide students a platform to study and share opinions on different topics.
About the unit
This is definitely a great unit for me in this semester. Personally, I love to study unit that contains cultural, sociological and philosophical aspects, which exactly this unit fits. It is interesting to learn and explore more about cyborg, as it was an unknown concept for me before the lessons. Among the 12 topics in this unit, I like and get more inspiration from the post-human one. But, I do realise that some concepts/ arguments in some particular topics are quite difficult and unconcrete for year 2 students to understand, especially when some of the students do not have any contact with relevant aspects.
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