Canguilhem amid the cyborgs

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ID2160609
AuthorsIan Hacking (University of Toronto)
Year1998
Volume27
Issue2-3
Pages202-216
Publication date1998-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomy and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03085149800000014
OpenAlexW1979311582
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited4

George Canguilhem's 1947 lecture,'Machine and organism',is a rich source of ideas for thinking about the relationships between living organisms and machines. He takes all tools and machines to be extensions of the bodymand part of life itself (which does not make machines any more good or bad than every living organism is good or bad). These insights are updated with a discussion of cyborgs. An account is given of the original idea of the cyborg (Clynes and Kline 1960), and of its transformations in science fiction and at the hands of Donna Haraway and Andrew Pickering. Canguilhem is profoundly anti-Cartesian, but on account oshis vision of life which breaks down the old barriers between natural and artificial, mind and body, manufactured and created. Keywords: GeorgesCanguilhemcyborgDescartesManfredClynesDonnaHarawayAndrewPickering

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Biology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · George (robot · Living systems · Natural (archaeology · Organism · Sociology · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · History · Philosophy

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