Cyborgs, desiring-machines, bodies without organs, and Westworld: Interrogating academic writing and scholarly identity
This paper fashions a lens through which to view scholarly identity and the experience of academic writing. The lens of inquiry I apply is the metaphor of Season 1 of sci-fi HBO television show Westworld and its characters, especially its cyborg protagonist Dolores. Thrumming like electric curren...
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| description | This paper fashions a lens through which to view scholarly identity and the
experience of academic writing. The lens of inquiry I apply is the metaphor of Season 1
of sci-fi HBO television show Westworld and its characters, especially its cyborg
protagonist Dolores. Thrumming like electric currents through this lens of inquiry are
Haraway’s theorization of the cyborg, the fictional worlds of science fiction and
Wonderland, my own lived experience, and Deleuze and Guattari’s desiring-machines
and bodies without organs. I engage in the cyborgic technology of writing in order to
playfully explore what it means to be a cyborg academic operating in intersecting
machinic worlds. I ask: Can we listen to our internal voices and write our own stories?
Can we burn the world clean with our scholarship and the ways in which we interrogate
ingrained and expected practices? |
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| spelling | doaj-art-49d2764cc32b415385aee0177ff2664b2025-08-20T03:14:43ZengLudovika University PressKOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry2063-73302017-07-01519110310.17646/KOME.2017.16Cyborgs, desiring-machines, bodies without organs, and Westworld: Interrogating academic writing and scholarly identityDeborah M. Netolicky0Murdoch University, Department of Education, AustraliaThis paper fashions a lens through which to view scholarly identity and the experience of academic writing. The lens of inquiry I apply is the metaphor of Season 1 of sci-fi HBO television show Westworld and its characters, especially its cyborg protagonist Dolores. Thrumming like electric currents through this lens of inquiry are Haraway’s theorization of the cyborg, the fictional worlds of science fiction and Wonderland, my own lived experience, and Deleuze and Guattari’s desiring-machines and bodies without organs. I engage in the cyborgic technology of writing in order to playfully explore what it means to be a cyborg academic operating in intersecting machinic worlds. I ask: Can we listen to our internal voices and write our own stories? Can we burn the world clean with our scholarship and the ways in which we interrogate ingrained and expected practices?http://komejournal.com/files/KOME_DN.pdfNew Mediametaphorcyborgscience fictionDeleuze and Guattari |
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| title | Cyborgs, desiring-machines, bodies without organs, and Westworld: Interrogating academic writing and scholarly identity |
| title_full | Cyborgs, desiring-machines, bodies without organs, and Westworld: Interrogating academic writing and scholarly identity |
| title_fullStr | Cyborgs, desiring-machines, bodies without organs, and Westworld: Interrogating academic writing and scholarly identity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cyborgs, desiring-machines, bodies without organs, and Westworld: Interrogating academic writing and scholarly identity |
| title_short | Cyborgs, desiring-machines, bodies without organs, and Westworld: Interrogating academic writing and scholarly identity |
| title_sort | cyborgs desiring machines bodies without organs and westworld interrogating academic writing and scholarly identity |
| topic | New Media metaphor cyborg science fiction Deleuze and Guattari |
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