the great debate

[jwgh]

[Poll #925685]

Defend your position in the comments!

(Tik-Tok's a robot, obviously. But what happens if he's sprinkled with the Powder of Life?)

Important Breaking News: Project Gutenberg has 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' available for free onliine, which allowed me to find this possibly relevant excerpt:

"Oh, I see," said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world."
"Have you any?" inquired the Scarecrow.
"No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman. "But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart."

Comments

[saucypunk.livejournal.com]

so my impression of "cyborg" (coming from a social studies perspective, anyway) is that it refers to the blending of human and mechanical identities -- so technically someone with a pacemaker is a cyborg. in that sense i'd say he's definitely a cyborg, because both his human identity and his tin identity are essential parts of his persona.

[plant-geek.livejournal.com]

you are such a grad student- it's great :)

[saucypunk.livejournal.com]

i enjoy it.

(seriously, i had to read an article on cyborg identities in a class i took in undergrad called "Race, Gender, and Community in the Latina Autobiography" and none of us had any idea what the fuck anyone was talking about. i kind of feel like i should go back and read more about the whole cyborg-as-social-identity thing though.)

[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

Was it Donna Haraway? One needs to be a cyborg with alien parts machined out of pure wackiness to understand much of what she is talking about much of the time.