What is a Cyborg? Revision as of 00:15, 24 December 2010 by
Caseorganic Anything that is an external prosthetic device
creates one into a cyborg. The idea of a cell phone being a
technosocial object that enables an actor (user) to communicate
with other actors (users) on a network (information exchange and
connectivity) makes one into what David Hess calls low-tech
cyborgs: "I think about how almost everyone in urban societies
could be seen as a low-tech cyborg, because they spend large
parts of the day connected to machines such as cars, telephones,
computers, and, of course, televisions. I ask the cyborg
anthropologist if a system of a person watching a TV might
constitute a cyborg. (When I watch TV, I feel like a homeostatic
system functioning unconsciously.) I also think sometimes there
is a fusion of identities between myself and the black box"
(Gray, 373). Types of Cyborgs "According to the editors of The
Cyborg Handbook, cyborg technologies take four different forms:
restorative, normalizing, reconfigu