FRAGMENTED NATURE AND AUGMENTED REALITY: FEMINIST THEORY ON SEXTECHS

Year 2017, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 4 - 9, 01.04.2017

Gülçe Başkaya

Abstract

There are millions of different life forms that we can fully or partly perceive. Those categories of life are replacing with more mechanical versions and humans are in the line. In order to comprehend this evolution and its connection with feminist theory, I shall divide the topic into different parts. The industrial developments, the psychological effects and my main analysis with an approximation function. The aim of this article is to explain and evaluate the crucial effects of technology to our perspectives of life. How patriarchy is not going to destroy by it but rather get stronger, in contrast to Haraway and other bodycentered feminists. If the body and its functions are the problem of the patriarchy and how is it going to develop even we destroy the given and normal body? In order to understand this, firstly we must interpret the following question, “Do humans only form within a physical body and nothing beside it?” and if we accept that we are losing our humanity by becoming-cyborg then how can we overcome patriarchy in different life forms. Consequently, the main aim of this article is the explain all of them within a theory, examples and also in an analytical screening. While robotics and cyborg industry still using the woman's body for production and commerce, it is not going to decrease the objectification of women. Last but not least, changing the woman body is not the answer the overcoming the patriarchy and will not be

Keywords

post-human studies, cyborgology, radical feminism

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