Abstract

ANDRADE DUTRA, Roger. Theories of Cyborg: the machinic and the human in Stanislaw Lem and Donna Haraway. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2011, vol.7, n.19, pp.143-156. ISSN 1850-0013.

This conference aims to establish contrasts between the conceptions of cyborgs in Stanislaw Lem's Summa Technologiae (1960) and in Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto (1985). We argue that the Haraway's cyborg is a response to the context of American political activism, in which bipolarizations predominate and where a subject of multiple identities acquires a subversive character and a disruptive symbolic potential. On the contrary, Lem's cyborg is built as a real possibility, the result of an extrapolation of the underlying logic of the evolutionary process. It represents an uninflected moment since, still attached to the underlying logic, men would find themselves forced to reverse it through drastic somatic changes in human bodies. The contradictions between the two definitions open a list of philosophical, technical and moral problems that we want to discuss.

Keywords : Cyborg; Donna Haraway; Stanislaw Lem.

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