Techno-Rant of the Cyborg Elder
摘要
Techno-Rant of the Cyborg Elder revisits Faith Wilding’s “Rant of the Menopausal Cyborg”—written a quarter century earlier for Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices —with a poetic and evocative update. In the chapter, Wilding claims the persona of a Cyborg Elder to trace changes in her experience of and attitude towards aging, ageism, memory, body, and technology. Living through the consequences of the ableist nature of technoscience, Wilding reflects on the technologies of her childhood in Paraguay, such as the use of radio or plant parts as technology, and connects the embodied memory of plants to her own experiences learning the alphabet. The chapter focuses on the tensions between the elemental and the technological, along with the challenges of producing a community in the present.