Cultural

Erobotica and Cybornography: Machines in Fetishistic Fantasy
Explores the cyborgian phenomenon of technosexuality, a fetish characterized by attraction to androids and post-humans. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between fetishes dealing with post-human subjects, Japanese pornographic illustrations, and Internet culture.

The Online Appeal
Explores the cyborgian world of Internet addiction and the effects this "disease" is having around the world across various age groups. It also looks at several positive roles the Internet has played in the lives of the disabled and those fighting cancer.

The Intersection of Sex and Technology: Impacting Our Sex Lives
Article about technology's role in the sexual lives of humans.

Emergence of Virtual Idols
Looks into Japan's use of mechanical and cyber technology in pop culture in creating virtual cyborgs.

Love in the Online Sphere
How to navigate online dating and how different cultures approach the subject.

The Future Present of Brain Interfacing
This article describes the current commercially available devices for interfacing a brain with a computer game, as well as what may be possible in the near future.

Telepresence: A Gateway to Becoming a Cyborg
This article looks at telepresence and how its immersion into our culture, mainly video games in culture is preparing the younger generations towards towards accepting Cyborgization as the next step in human evolution.

China's Role in Cybernetic Warfare: Past, Present, and Future
Explores China's role in cybernetic warfare in regards to their past, present, and future.

Information Over Matter: Cyborgs in Cyberspace
Talks about how a human cyborgizes themselves in creating multiple internet identities as well as mentally fusing oneself with machine by temporarily forgetting our surroundings being wholly immersed to the internet.

Cyborg Philosophy: Ethical Issues Concerning Augmentation

Photography in the Age of the Cyborg
Acknowledging positive and negative implications of bodily integrated cameras and its effect upon photographers and photography.

Steroids

Brain-Computer Interface Systems

In Vitro Fertilization

Superhuman Moms With Average Babies: The Cyborgization of Prenatal Care

Evangelion: The Cyborg Mecha

An examination of the genre of the science-fiction anime genre ‘mecha,' specifically shows like Transformers, Gundam Wing, and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Mecha are large robotic machines with degrees of human traits ranging from human pilots to human machine hybrids that bleed. Common motifs in this genre are explored and offer insights into the human relationship with this violent technology.


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