Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Deleuze and the Social: Is there a D-function?
- I Order and Organisation
- II Subjectivity and Transformation
- 4 In the Mean Time: Vitalism, Affects and Metamorphosis in Organisational Change
- 5 I Knew there were Kisses in the Air
- 6 Becoming-Cyborg: Changing the Subject of the Social?
- III Art and the Outside
- IV Capitalism and Resistance
- V Social Constitution and Ontology
- Notes on contributors
- Index
6 - Becoming-Cyborg: Changing the Subject of the Social?
from II - Subjectivity and Transformation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Deleuze and the Social: Is there a D-function?
- I Order and Organisation
- II Subjectivity and Transformation
- 4 In the Mean Time: Vitalism, Affects and Metamorphosis in Organisational Change
- 5 I Knew there were Kisses in the Air
- 6 Becoming-Cyborg: Changing the Subject of the Social?
- III Art and the Outside
- IV Capitalism and Resistance
- V Social Constitution and Ontology
- Notes on contributors
- Index
Summary
Human monsters are embryos that were retarded at a certain degree of development, the human in them is only a straitjacket for inhuman forms and substances.
Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand PlateausThis is the space-age, and we are here to go.
William Burroughs, Dead City RadioThe main thing about them is not that they wish to go ‘back,’ but that they wish to get – away. A little more strength, flight, courage, and artistic power, and they would want to rise – not return.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and EvilIn 1960 Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline coined the term cyborg to refer to (nothing less than) an ‘exogenously extended organisational complex functioning as an integrated homeostatic system unconsciously’ (Clynes and Kline 1995 [1960]: 30–1). In so doing, they simultaneously heralded at least four decades of speculation on the post-human, and sought to close down this potentiality to effectuate a homeostaticrepetition of Homo sapiens. The exogenous extension of which Clynes and Kline spoke was the technological extension of a biological organism to enable its continued survival in the hostile environ of space. Whilst their first experiments involved the ubiquitous lab-rat, Clynes and Kline's ultimate goal was the merging of high technology and a human body to produce the ultimate astronaut. Whilst apparently radical, insofar as it broached the boundaries of the human body and took technics out of humans’ conscious control, at its core Clynes and Kline's work was conservative.
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- Deleuze and the Social , pp. 112 - 132Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2006