Cyborg monsters in feminist science fiction define different political possibilities and limits from those constructed by the mundane fiction of Man and Woman—“I’m psyching for some hard downtime with a free radical.” Unlike the hopes of Frankenstein’s monster, the cyborg does not expect its father to save it through a restoration of the garden, ie through the fabrication of a heterosexual mate, through its completion in a finished (w)hole, a city and cosmos. The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism. As illegitimate offspring they are exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Their Fathers are, after all, inessential—“millennia later I am accommodated in an oral cavity which amplifies the workings of her secret cybernetic body … she transforms me into pure code, pure speed…”
Publication Details
- Type
- Journal Article
- Title
- Girls in Cyberspace: Jyanni Steffensen emails a message from the future
- Author
- Publication
- RealTime, Virginia Baxter, Keith Gallasch (eds.), pp. 17, number 2, Aug-Sept 1994, English
- Publisher
- RealTime, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Attached Files
- Girls in Cyberspace, Jyanni Steffenen. RealTime number 2, Aug-Sept 1994, p. 17, journal article [pdf 477.44KB]