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La metáfora cyborg: órganos artificiales y encrucijadas
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[spa] En esta investigación pretendo mostrar que los híbridos cyborg son un tipo de metáforas que son fruto de la experiencia de corporalización. Estas metáforas aparecen cuando el cyborg logra que sus órganos artificiales adquieran cierta clase de plasticidad biológica, cada vez que uno de sus órganos biológicos se extiende en una máquina e, incluso, cuando se le fabrican órganos a las máquinas para que sientan el mundo exterior. De acuerdo con esto, los órganos artificiales del cyborg no se diseñan como cosas, sino como metáforas/ encrucijadas, esto es, como un punto de colisión de los trayectos por donde circulan los órganos y las máquinas, las disciplinas que contribuyen a que exista esta circulación junto con los cuerpos y las mentes que experimentan estas mezclas biotecnológicas. La presente investigación está compuesta de cuatro metáforas/ encrucijadas: las metáforas de la hibridación cibernética, las metáforas del sentido del sí mismo, las metáforas computacionales y las metáforas del devenir. Por último, se incluye la creación de un prototipo de un órgano cyborg.
[eng] In this study I set out to show that cyborg hybrids are a type of metaphor resulting from the experience of embodiment. These metaphors appear when a cyborg succeeds in making its artificial organs acquire a certain biological plasticity, whenever one of its biological organs is extended into a machine, or even when organs are made to enable machines to sense the outside world. Thus, a cyborg’s artificial organs are not designed as things, but as metaphors/crossroads; that is, as intersections among the channels of circulation of organs and machines, disciplines contributing to this circulation, and bodies and minds experiencing these biotechnological amalgams. The present study is articulated around four metaphors/crossroads: metaphors of cybernetic hybridisation, metaphors of the sense of self, computer metaphors, and metaphors of becoming. Lastly, the design of an original cyborg organ prototype is included.
[eng] In this study I set out to show that cyborg hybrids are a type of metaphor resulting from the experience of embodiment. These metaphors appear when a cyborg succeeds in making its artificial organs acquire a certain biological plasticity, whenever one of its biological organs is extended into a machine, or even when organs are made to enable machines to sense the outside world. Thus, a cyborg’s artificial organs are not designed as things, but as metaphors/crossroads; that is, as intersections among the channels of circulation of organs and machines, disciplines contributing to this circulation, and bodies and minds experiencing these biotechnological amalgams. The present study is articulated around four metaphors/crossroads: metaphors of cybernetic hybridisation, metaphors of the sense of self, computer metaphors, and metaphors of becoming. Lastly, the design of an original cyborg organ prototype is included.
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AFANADOR LÓPEZ, Tatiana. La metáfora cyborg: órganos artificiales y encrucijadas. [consulted: 11 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/184307