Cyborg Politics and Economic Realities: Reflections on Elaine Graham's Representations of the Post/Human

This article seeks to examine the political and economic context of cyborg culture and technology in Elaine Graham's Representations of the Post/Human. It begins by drawing out the relationship between Graham's study and Foucault's genealogical method and seeks to establish the ‘silen...

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Main Author: Carrette, Jeremy R. 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2004
In: Theology & sexuality
Year: 2004, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 45-55
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Summary:This article seeks to examine the political and economic context of cyborg culture and technology in Elaine Graham's Representations of the Post/Human. It begins by drawing out the relationship between Graham's study and Foucault's genealogical method and seeks to establish the ‘silent machine’ operating in Graham's analysis. By following three critical strands —knowledge as technology, economic determinism and imaginative agency and the economics of transcendence—the article highlights and extends a critique of capitalism and technology in the text. It argues that economics is now shaped by the machine and concludes by opening up a ‘politics of refusal’. Graham's work is acknowledged for bringing to light uncomfortable questions surrounding the politics of the machine.
ISSN:1745-5170
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/135583580401000204