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Muchas veces, ante auditorios distintos, me he presentado como cyborg, para explicar la prostética auricular que complementa mi hipoacusia neurosensorial bilateral moderada, y también para introducir el ruego a la gente de que use un micrófono para hacer preguntas o comentarios en las conferencias; también me llamo cyborg para anteponer mi identificación como hipoacúsicx a otras identidades más espectaculares, como marica o lesbiana, y así eludir la aburrida asignación de identidades sexuales heterodesignadas por y desde el binario heterosexual/homosexual; para recordar que mi deseo no se restringe a un asunto de género y mi género a un asunto de genitales y órganos reproductivos, y yo todx a mi sexualidad, como si fuera lo único que soy por no cumplir el mandato heterosexual y cisgenerista. Yo, una metonimia.
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Gear‐Switch‐Integrated Dual‐Mode Three‐Wheeled Exoskeleton that Empowers Cyborg Insects with Enhanced Open‐Loop Locomotion Control Precision and Load Capacity
Cyborg insects are potential alternatives to small artificial robots, with promising applications in areas such as confined space exploration. However, its low open‐loop locomotion control precision makes it difficult to perform tasks requiring precise control, while the number of sensors that can be carried is limited due to their low load capacity, which significantly limits its application scenarios. To this end, an exoskeleton is proposed herein, which significantly improves the locomotion control accuracy and load capacity of cyborg insects. The exoskeleton, with a peripheral size of 7.2 cm × 14 cm, employs three wheels to carry the load and control the direction of motion of the cyborg insect. The exoskeleton‐integrated cyborg insect excels in locomotion control precision. Without feedback control, it completes continuous circular and linear motions with minor offset errors. Compared to other cyborg insects, its load capacity is increased from less than 20–400 g or more, allowing it to be equipped with large, energy‐intensive sensors. In addition, the exoskeleton supports switching between high‐precision controlled motion and insect‐driven active exploration modes. This design broadens the application scenarios of the cyborg insect and opens the possibility of performing more complex tasks. Cyborg insects’ low open‐loop control precision and limited sensor payload hinder applications. This article introduces an exoskeleton that improves motion precision and payload capacity. With a 7.2 cm × 14 cm size, it enhances load capacity to over 400 g and enables high‐precision movement without feedback control, expanding application scenarios for more complex tasks.
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Posthuman Metamorphosis
From Dr. Moreau's Beast People to David Cronenberg's Brundlefly, Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the Cyberiad to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the Xenogenesis trilogy, Posthuman Metamorphosis examines modern and postmodern stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory. New media generate new metamorphs.New stories have emerged from cybernetic displacements of life, sensation, or intelligence from human beings to machines. But beyond the vogue for the cyborg and the cybernetic mash-up of the organic and the mechanical, Posthuman Metamorphosis develops neocybernetic systems theories illuminating alternative narratives that elicit autopoietic and symbiotic visions of the posthuman.Systems theory also transforms our modes of narrative cognition. Regarding narrative in the light of the autopoietic systems it brings into play, neocybernetics brings narrative theory into constructive relation with the systemic operations of observation, communication, and paradox.Posthuman Metamorphosis draws on Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Niklas Luhmann, Cary Wolfe, Mieke Bal, Katherine Hayles, Friedrich Kittler, and Lynn Margulis to read narratives of bodily metamorphosis as allegories of the contingencies of systems. Tracing the posthuman intuitions of both pre- and post-cybernetic metamorphs, it demonstrates the viability of second-order systems theories for narrative theory, media theory, cultural science studies, and literary criticism.
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Nanoformulations in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications: Green Perspectives
This study provides a brief discussion of the major nanopharmaceuticals formulations as well as the impact of nanotechnology on the future of pharmaceuticals. Effective and eco-friendly strategies of biofabrication are also highlighted. Modern approaches to designing pharmaceutical nanoformulations (e.g., 3D printing, Phyto-Nanotechnology, Biomimetics/Bioinspiration, etc.) are outlined. This paper discusses the need to use natural resources for the “green” design of new nanoformulations with therapeutic efficiency. Nanopharmaceuticals research is still in its early stages, and the preparation of nanomaterials must be carefully considered. Therefore, safety and long-term effects of pharmaceutical nanoformulations must not be overlooked. The testing of nanopharmaceuticals represents an essential point in their further applications. Vegetal scaffolds obtained by decellularizing plant leaves represent a valuable, bioinspired model for nanopharmaceutical testing that avoids using animals. Nanoformulations are critical in various fields, especially in pharmacy, medicine, agriculture, and material science, due to their unique properties and advantages over conventional formulations that allows improved solubility, bioavailability, targeted drug delivery, controlled release, and reduced toxicity. Nanopharmaceuticals have transitioned from experimental stages to being a vital component of clinical practice, significantly improving outcomes in medical fields for cancer treatment, infectious diseases, neurological disorders, personalized medicine, and advanced diagnostics. Here are the key points highlighting their importance. The significant challenges, opportunities, and future directions are mentioned in the final section.
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Becoming human?: Ableism and control in 'Detroit: Become human' and the implications for human- machine communication
In human-machine communication (HMC), machines are communicative subjects in the creation of meaning. The Computers are Social Actors and constructivist approaches to HMC postulate that humans communicate with machines as if they were people. From this perspective, communication is understood as heavily scripted where humans mindlessly apply human-to-human scripts in HMC. We argue that a critical approach to communication scripts reveals how humans may rely on ableism as a means of sense-making in their relationships with machines. Using the choose-your-own-adventure game Detroit: Become Human as a case study, we demonstrate (a) how ableist communication scripts render machines as both less-than-human and superhuman and (b) how such scripts manifest in control and cyborg anxiety. We conclude with theoretical and design implications for rescripting ableist communication scripts.
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Fragmentary identity in the poetry of Michal Habaj
Drawing on the theoretical framework developed by Camelia Elias, the paper focuses of the literary fragment in Slovak poetry. Together with the theoretical approaches of Fedor Matejov and Andrea Bokníková, it briefly points out the importance of the fragment in the development of Slovak poetry in the second half of the 20th century, resulting in the experimental-deconstructive line of Slovak poetry of the late 20th and early 21st century, for which fragment is a typical constructional textual element. The article traces how, using intertextuality, appropriation and irony, the fragment serves to reflect on cultural change. Particular attention is paid to the poetry of Michal Habaj, within which the fragment does not merely function as an incomplete remnant of the whole, but acts as a dynamic element capable of creating new links of meaning. Fragmentation appears in Habaj’s poetry on the thematic and formal level, and also in the construction of authorial identities or subjects. The analysis of the subject – the cyborg is presented against the backdrop of the interpretation of the poem “Nezabudnúť: dnes, zajtra, včera [Not to forget: today, tomorrow, yesterday] from the collection Korene neba. Básne z posledného storočia (Roots of heaven. Poems from the last century, 2000).
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Memorias de un cyborg
Escribí este texto a la vez que trabajaba con el equipo editorial de la Revista Maguaré en la edición del número sobre antropologíacyborg. Mi querida colega y amiga Tatiana Herrera me persuadió a participar en el número con un artículo que tuviera que vercon mi experiencia personal. En ese momento empecé a darle vueltas al problema: cómo hablar de un tema tan propio e íntimo de tal forma que pudiera acercar a quien leyera el relato a la experiencia cyborg, sin caer en una mera descripción del asunto. Llevar a cabo este ejercicio en el que exploré varias ideas significó abrir un torrente de emociones que tenía guardadas, hablar con mi madre, con mi padre, con amigos que leyeron el manuscrito y con los que nunca había hablado del tema.
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Convertirse en cyborg: la experiencia de escuchar a través de la máquina
Desde la exploración de la escucha, expongo las ideas que se encuentran detrás delproceso de creación del video ensayo Convertirse en cyborg (Becoming Cyborg),una pieza audiovisual que expone el proceso de una mujer que perdió su oído a los 10 años y que después de 24 años adquiere el implante coclear y descubre la escucha cibernética. El proceso muestra los análisis, encuentros y desencuentros con el desarrollo del sentido de la escucha y descubre las posibilidades de la tecnología al fundirse con la máquina. Unas posibilidades que resignifican la discapacidad y un futuro posible desde la imaginación y el deseo. By exploring the sense of hearing, this essay presents the ideas underlying the creation of the video essay Convertirse en Cyborg (Becoming Cyborg). This audiovisual work details the journey of a woman who lost her hearing at age 10 and, after 24 years, receives a cochlear implant, discovering cybernetic hearing. The process reveals the analyses, encounters, and conflicts related to the evolution of auditory perception and examines the possibilities that arise when technology merges with the machine. These possibilities reframe disability and envision a possible future shaped by imagination and desire.
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