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Cyborg configurations as formations of (self-)creation in the fantasy space of technological creation (I): Old and new mythologies of ‹artificial humans›
Verena Kuni
This essay deals with current cyborg configurations in the field of tension between old and new phantasms of the creation of ‹artificial humans.› It introduces the mythologies of the ‹artificial human› one encounters in historical and contemporary texts and images from literature and the arts, all the way to popular science fiction. [more]
In the beginning there was… ... the image of humans? Cyborg bodies and their contours «The Promises of Monsters» Interface gender Artificial humans or anthropomorphism as imperative The future Eve Creators and their creatures Stories of creation, revisited Living images Hybrids of art and science Making monsters «Reinvent yourself!»