That time there was a convention for Automata and the next one will be in 2018. 2016.
Category: Inspiration/Musings
Tightrope Dancer with Musicians Automaton by Phalibois or Cruchet, c.1875
A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway
Unlike the hopes of Frankenstein’s monster, the cyborg does not expect its father to save it through a restoration of the garden; that is, through the fabrication of a heterosexual mate, through its completion in a finished whole, a city and cosmos. The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.
…The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Their fathers, after all, are inessential.
A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway
