Grammars of transgression: Golems, cyborgs, and mutants

William A. Covino University of Illinois Chicago

Abstract

Yod, we're all unnatural now. I have retinal implants. I have a plug set into my skull to interface with a computer. I read time by a corneal implant. Malkah has a subcutaneous unit that monitors and corrects blood pressure, and half her teeth are regrown. Her eyes have been rebuilt twice. Avram has an artificial heart and Gadi a kidney.... I couldn't begin to survive without my personal [computer] base: I wouldn't know who I was.... We're all cyborgs, Yod. You're just a purer form of what we're all tending toward. -Marge Piercy, He, She and It (150)

Journal
Rhetoric Review
Published
1996-03-01
DOI
10.1080/07350199609389070
CompPile
Search in CompPile ↗
Open Access
Closed
Topics
Export

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (1)

  1. Rhetoric Society Quarterly

References (33)

  1. Wyndham, John.The Chrysalids21
  2. 10.2307/3178438
  3. Body Invaders: Panic Sex in America
  4. The Golem: Legends from the Ghetto of Prague
  5. Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Post‐Modem Science Fiction
Show all 33 →
  1. The Philosophy of Literary Form
  2. The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science
  3. Magia Naturalis Und Die Entstehung Der Modernen Naturwissenschaften
  4. Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy: An Eccentric History of the Composing Imagination
  5. Science Fiction Studies
  6. Writing and Difference
  7. The Technological System
  8. Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition
  9. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
  10. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
  11. Cultural Studies
  12. Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid
  13. Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation, in Theory and Practice
  14. The Prometheus Syndrome
  15. Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class
  16. Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology
  17. Storming the Reality Studio
  18. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
  19. Golem
  20. He, She, and It
  21. The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinking
  22. On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism
  23. Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
  24. The Golem Legend: Origins and Implications
  25. How Computers Work
  26. How Software Works
  27. God and Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion
  28. The Chrysalids