I just want to point out that I’ve been a cyborg for most of my life.
I’m a fan of steampunk novels, and the grafting of flesh and mechanical elements is a major part of that. But in a way I’ve been grafted onto my watch for so long I reflexively twist my wrist to look at the time, and the skin beneath it is permanently lighter than the skin on the rest of my arm. I’m short-sighted, so my glasses are essential for me to function, I put them on first thing in the morning, and take them off last thing at night. I wear a ring on that finger too–I’ve been married a long time, though I often switch up my wedding band with a fun bit of costume jewellery. My finger indents under the ring, the white flesh moulded so that it looks strange if I don’t wear a ring.
Shoes, jackets, hair clips, piercings. Useful, medical and ornamental bits of metal and glass technology. We have always been cyborgs.
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And yes this was the image I tried to share as an Instagram post.
Great post Katherine,
I was shocked to find Michael Jackson was a cyborg, not man not woman, not black not white, amongst many other alterations…..I think when he died he was Michael 5.2.3
This reminds me to include plastic surgery and gender reassignment surgery to the cyborg, not just pacemakers and hearing aids!