Talk held on May 6th as part of the Public Lecture Series 'Critical Perspectives on Technology' organised within the project 'Exceptional Norms: Marginalised Bodies in Interaction Design' and the HCI Group of TU Wien.

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Abstract:
Two cyborgs talk about being cyborgs – discussing their experiences of maintenance, wear, frustration, funding, adjustment, alternatives, etc. We correct presumptions that many people have about what it is to be prosthetized. What is a cyborg (as opposed to a tryborg)? When is it worth becoming a cyborg? At what point do we give up on a technology? Why don’t we hear more stories from technologized disabled people as common cyborgs?

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Ashley Shew is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. Shew works on philosophy of technology at its intersection with disability studies, animal studies, and emerging technologies. She serves as co-editor-in-chief of Techné, the journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. She is co-editor of three phil-tech volumes and sole author of Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge (2017). Her current research is about technoableism and stories disabled people tell about technology that challenge tropey norms.

The Cyborg Jillian Weise (Cy/She/Hers) is a poet, video artist and disability rights activist. Cy’s books include The Amputee’s Guide to Sex (2007), the novel The Colony (2010), The Book of Goodbyes (2013) and Cyborg Detective (2019). Her work has appeared in The New York Times and Granta. Cy’s next book is a memoir, Common Cyborg, out from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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