Dossier: Cyborg in Cinema

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What defines a cyborg is its hybrid condition: a combination of biological and technological components. The history of cinema has depicted cyborgs in many ways and in many genres (especially science fiction and horror), frequently mixing them (due to their constitutive ambiguity) with aliens, mutants, androids, clones, homunculi, robots and monsters. Contemporary reflection on these beings and their boundaries, and how we could all be cyborgs today, as suggested by biologist Donna Haraway in her ?Cyborg Manifesto,? has found its way to the screen and opened up a debate that goes beyond science fiction and mainstream cinema. Cyborgs have become a metaphor for discussions of ethics, biopolitics, gender, migration, medicalization and digitalisation along with classic discussions on the opposition of nature and culture and the limits of man. Information provided by the agent in SIGEVA