Cyborg Maintenance: Design, Breakdown, and Inclusion
Cyborg Maintenance: Design, Breakdown, and Inclusion
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机器人维护：设计、分解和包容
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2019
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J. Earle
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J. Earle
那些最希望成为电子人的人忽略了普通电子人的生活经历。我反对超人类主义运动的乌托邦，目的论，用日常关心的实际半机械人：维护。维护方面的学术工作很少，相对较新，通常集中在基础设施和大型技术系统上。我将这些大型技术系统的工作与残疾研究学者和活动家的生物政治工作相结合。我表明，创新的共同叙述，坚持技术变得更快，更有效率，随着时间的推移更耐用是错误的，以及如何维护，而不是升级将是电子人的身体规范。我呼吁一个更深思熟虑的设计精神，以产生更容易维护以及。技术和身体之间的界面是重大故障的场所，因为每一个都在降低另一个。水分、酸性和愈合过程使技术系统难以在体内持续很长时间，异物侵入人体会引发划痕、纤维化、感染和全身反应。残疾人经常浏览这些问题，他们描述的工作，他们做了什么，以保持他们的技术身体头脑不符合超人类主义的叙述。随着技术人员继续对我们的身体进行技术干预，需要考虑半机械人维护的问题，而对这种干预已经成为现实的残疾人可以告诉我们很多关于如何需要发生的事情。
The lived experiences of common cyborgs are ignored by those who most wish to be cyborg. I push back against the utopic, teleological imaginaries of the Transhumanist movement using a daily concern for actual cyborgs: maintenance. Scholarly work on maintenance is sparse, relatively recent, and generally focused on infrastructure and large technological systems. I merge the work done on these large technological systems with the biopolitical work by disability studies scholars and activists. I show that the common narratives of innovation that insist that technology becomes faster, more efficient, and more durable over time are false, and how upkeep rather than upgrading will be the norm for cyborg bodies. I call for a more deliberate design ethos for producing more accessible maintenance as well. The interfaces between technology and the body are sites of significant breakdown as each degrades the other. Moisture, acidity, and healing processes make it difficult for technological systems to last long within the body, and the intrusion of foreign material into the human body triggers scarification, fibroses, infection, and systemic reactions. Disabled people regularly navigate these concerns, and their description of the sorts of work they do to keep up their techno-bodyminds does not match well with the transhumanist narrative. The concerns of cyborg maintenance need to be considered as technologists continue to produce technological interventions into our bodies, and disabled folks for whom such intervention is already a reality can tell us a lot about how that needs to happen.