Enfleshed materialism in William Gibson’s The Peripheral: cyborgian bio-technological literary analysis
The purpose of the present research is to analyze the cyborgian theories of decentered and nomadic subjects, trans-genetic organisms, trans-human, bio-discourse, bio-narrative and metamorphic becoming, employed by cyborg biotechnology to create enfleshed materialism. Cyborg develops the charac...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2024
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25030/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25030/1/Gema%20Online_24_4_18.pdf |
| Summary: | The purpose of the present research is to analyze the cyborgian theories of decentered and nomadic
subjects, trans-genetic organisms, trans-human, bio-discourse, bio-narrative and metamorphic
becoming, employed by cyborg biotechnology to create enfleshed materialism. Cyborg develops
the characters’ identity and the way they are linked to fictional reality and processes of creating
the hybridized bodies. Gibson in The Peripheral (2014) portrays the non-unitary virtual
subjectivities as well as challenges of genetic creatures through tracing the life of Flynne, the main
protagonist. Donna Haraway, Paul Virilio and Rosi Braidotti are the selected theorists introducing
the theory of the research; cyborg; an umbrella term referring to cybernetic organisms. Cyborg
biotechnology expands the embodiment of the self and transforms the human into enfleshed body
by making it cyborg, relating reader to the other worlds. In the cyborg biotechnology, the organic
and non-organic bodies are produced through merging the body and non-body materials, relating
to the debate on how cyborgian enfleshed body as an object of cyborg knowledge materializes,
actualizes, shifts, and functions in bio-discourse. Cyborgian literary theory is used to examine
virtual creatures, which are partly inorganic and partly machine to prove technology as a re
humanizing power to claim agency over the enfleshed bodies. |
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