The Bionic Body:Technology,Disability and Posthumanism
Historically,disability and the process of"disabling"the other has been intrinsic to the structural methods of social,cul-tural,economic,and legal"othering"and stigmatization of subaltern identities,de-normativization of difference,whether based on race,gender,or sexuality.The recent advancements in bionic technology have had a significant impact on the representation of the disabled in contemporary media culture,and,in turn,the contemporary representations of the disabled body have affected the changing boundaries of what is and what is not considered"human".With technological progress,at the crossroads of posthuman-ism,disability,and biomimicry,it has developed what we can now call critical posthuman disability studies,a field well-e-quipped to further untangle and reconceptualize the ethical,legal,and philosophical boundaries of human enhancement,species be-longing,life and death,and human rights.Critical posthuman disability studies can become instrumental in charting future paths for critical theory in the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution,and provide a framework for how we reconceptualize our posthu-man,hybrid future in which our existence with the machines that redefine previous hierarchies is inevitable.
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