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Beyond the Cyborg: Performance, Attunement and Autonomous Computation

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Titre (article, livre complet, chapitre de livre, publication réseaux sociaux, pageWeb, SiteWeb complet, etc.)

Beyond the Cyborg: Performance, Attunement and Autonomous Computation

Auteur de la référence bibliograpique

Marco Donnarumma

Date de publication (AAAA ou AAAA-MM-JJ)

2017-07-03

Numéro (revues scientifiques)

2

Volume (revues scientifiques)

13

Maison d'édition / Nom de la revue scientifique / Nom du site Web / Nom de l'institution universitaire (thèses) / Institution d'un rapport, etc.

International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

Intervalles des pages (articles)

105-119

URL (adresse Web)

https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2017.1338828

Is Referenced By

KTWJ29UD

Abstract

Body technologies, such as prostheses and biosensors, are active means of lived experimentation: they enable forms of hybrid embodiment such as the cyborg, whose diverse representations by artists and performers have infiltrated our societal normative regime. To talk about body politics is therefore to talk about the technologies the body incorporates, how they probe its alleged integrity. Performance theories and practices offer a fertile ground of experimentation with this issue. Yet, there is a tendency to frame body technologies as either material extensions of one’s body or external objects one perceives with. Such approaches support technocratic systems of beliefs by eliding immaterial and pre-conscious aspects of technological incorporation, I argue. Key to this argument is the notion of automaticity; a subjective form of psychic attunement with particular technical instruments. The performativity of certain bodily thresholds enables forms of human–machine codependence, where body and technology affect each other through discipline, training and relational economies of desire. As a case study, I offer an autoethnographic analysis of my own performance with an artificially intelligent body technology. This reveals an inherently hybrid and relational corporeality, which confounds the boundaries between human and technical, material and immaterial, perceptual and psychological, conscious and pre-conscious.

doi

10.1080/14794713.2017.1338828

issn

1479-4713

short title

Beyond the cyborg

Source

Taylor and Francis+NEJM

Date Submitted

2025-03-07T20:37:32Z

is compiled by

ARCANES

Julie-Michèle

is in semantic relation with

Performance

affect

Item sets

IA, pratiques narratives et arts performatifs

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Beyond the cyborg Article