ABSTRACT

There are places only cyborgs can go. The most obvious are cyberspace, aquaspace (living and working in the deep sea), and outer space, but there are smaller places that also exclude pure humans: the lips of live volcanoes, inside shattered nuclear reactors, and the tiny spaces between and within molecules and atoms. This chapter looks closely at the three first spaces, but the political questions that apply to them are also relevant to other cyborg spaces. Who defines such territories? Who are the border guards? Who owns them? How do they construct the cyborgs that explore and use them?