ABSTRACT

By the second half of the 1990s, Brazil finally entered into the globalization era and some families were able to buy computers, mobile phones, and have an internet dial access, even though it meant paying a lot for these goods and services. Thus, talking about being a cyborg in Brazil is also talking about a society marked by a huge social inequality, where on one hand the middle class pays a lot to have access to cutting edge products, and on the other hand part of the population does not have those technologies or an internet with good speed quality. As journalists and researchers, the readers argue that actions in a cyborg environment are the result of a network of human and non-human actors, in a society full of hybrids that build a plural and complex world that cannot be simplified and framed into dichotomies.