Week 12 reading response

There is this sentence in the article that reads – “We are cyborgs, making a cyborg planet with cyborg weather, a crazed, unstable disingression, whose information and energy systems are out of whack. It’s a de-natured nature without ecology.” A cyborg does not need perfect weather, clean air, clean water, etc. It can survive in any polluted environment. So, the article mentions if we deteriorate our surrounding as we are doing now the environment will be so polluted that we as a normal human being will not survive so we have to adapt and evolve with the changed surrounding. Be it by using technology or modifying our biological structure.

The article reminds me of this picture which went viral few years ago. It is a picture of a plant kept inside a bag which then directly connects to the breathing pipe. It makes us think that even though human beings need fresh air to survive, we are still spilling out toxic from everywhere. This picture might be a metamorphic attack as the result of our actions of destructing the environment and hence resulting in climate change.

The article reads “But the Anthropocene draws attention to androgenic climate change as an unintended consequence of collective human labour. It calls attention not to the psychic unconscious or the political unconscious but to the infrastructural unconscious. ” I disagree with this statement because of course, we are harming the environment consciously knowing that it will cause a havoc in the future. We are just too naive to consider what might happen later from our present action.

 

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