Of Two Minds Review -- Ourselves

Joyce points out that he sees himself turning into something like what Donna Haraway calls a cyborg:

"a creature whose life is no longer bounded by the horizon line that slashes between too comfortable dualisms such as 'self/other, mind/body, culture/nature, male/female, civilized/primitive, reality/appearance, whole/part, agent/resource, maker/made...' Previously stable horizons across my psychic landscape gave way to dizzying patterns of successive contours, each of which was most assuredly real, each of which did not last." (2).

Through all of this shifting as we create and read hypertexts and interact in electronic spaces, we begin to see beyond boundaries to the content and currents underneath and recognize our complicity and responsibility in the spaces and positions we help construct and inhabit. This, I think, is akin to the critical consciousness talked about by radical theorists like Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux.