cyborg Cyborgs are hybrid creatures - not only as crosses betweeen machine and organism, but also as constructs in which individual as well as social perceptions and projections, realities and fictions fuse together... Like their precursors in the literature and art of former centuries, it is striking how many cyborg configurations - in the arts as well as in popular culture - are modeled after the human (body) image. Verena Kuni Cyborg configurations as formations of (self-)creation... see also: Donna Haraway (original text) A Cyborg Manifesto N. Katherine Hayles (review) How We Became Posthuman Mary Flanagan + Austin Booth (review) Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture << statement >>