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human

Media is extensions or prostheses of human faculty

We understanded meaning of extension and prostheses at Following sentence or movie.

The wheel is an extension of the foot...
the book is an extension of the eye... clothing,
an extension of the skin...”

movie : six million dollar man


New media serve as "extensions" to ourselves and, simultaneously, they "amputate" various capacities of subjectivity.

To understand meaning of amputation, Following sentence can be good example.
When we push computer keyboard, We are amputated handwriting skill


background: questions of identity

gender: who is a woman? who is a man?
race: who is black? who is white?
sexuality: who is straight? who is gay?
class: who is rich? who is poor?

are these categories “natural”? are they determined by “nature”?

No, Because people make those thing.

definition of cyborg

Cyborg is not robot. We understand meaning of cyborg easily. at "six million dollar man" , "Ghost In The Shell"

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction

I think We are cyborg . because We wear glasses,lense,mp3 player,mobile-phone.