ABSTRACT
This chapter explores cyborgs and how cyborgian processes are indeed processes of situated and preceding learning with materials. One place to explore how cyborg bodies learn is in the field of “artificial limbs”. The concept of “cyborg” originated etymologically as a neologism coined by two employees at National Aeronautics and Space Administration Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline. Cyborgs are purposeful amalgamations of humans and machines as cybernetically extended organisms. The spinozist posthumanists see the cyborg as a potential ally, when it transgresses all boundaries between “bodily existence and computer simulation, cybernetic mechanism and biological organism, robot teleology and human goals”. The cyborgs and the posthumans may have different genealogies, but do not belong to entirely different stories. Though learning is not the only process that goes into objects of observation, processes tend to be overlooked when posthumanists refer to generalised discourse, categories and systems.
