“We are all chimeras"

“We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.” (Donna Haraway)

How is our writing mediated and motivated by considerations of gender and hybridity? 

Homi K. Bhabha’s diasporas and new definitions of hybridity, showing how colonialism is far from 'in the past' but continuing to be apparent in our 'presents', demanding we transform our understanding of cross-cultural relations. (See Edward Said, Michel Foucault, Derrida, Lacan)

How has the “democracy” of the Internet opened up floodgates of “untested” material? What effect has this had on information consumption and information generation. How much sh*t do we need to sift through in order to find what we thought we were looking for (which has itself since changed to something new that we discovered on a googling tangent!)
And what of the promise of Deleuze and Guatarri's rhizomatic thought; multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation? Is it just going to confuse my head.

my current favorite RHIZOME ...

 Growing about 5cm a day and won't stop til they reach my waist!

My little girl's namesake...the margarita (Daisy) 

What of the cult of blogs, everyone’s story, confession, the manufactured memoir? What is interesting? Can pschoanalysis explain this voyeurism/exhibitionism? Or is it merely self-conscious posturing?

Do our bodies become speedier and more mechanized as we plug in? Is this all about efficiency? The "human resource" being pushed to it's speediest limits in order to be more financially viable? Are we becoming imprisoned/static by our own technological advances.

What capabilities are gained in the age of the ebook and text message novels? What is lost? When the original texts only exist digitally how valuable books will become!

Thank you Naropa University for inspiring me to revisit cyborg theory...now, how can this inform future teaching/research projects?