Keep Calm and Remain Human: How We Have Always Been Cyborgs and Theories on the Technological Present of Anthropology

@article{Wells2014KeepCA,
  title={Keep Calm and Remain Human: How We Have Always Been Cyborgs and Theories on the Technological Present of Anthropology},
  author={Joshua J. Wells},
  journal={Reviews in Anthropology},
  year={2014},
  volume={43},
  pages={34 - 5}
}
The cybernetic organism, or cyborg, is a recognized but often misunderstood concept in anthropology. However, the cyborg concept has the capacity to holistically cross-cut a wide swath of anthropological investigations and effectively problematize many anthropologically interesting characteristics of human subjects who, in all times and places, are dependent upon technology. The complex relationships between human beings and their technologies can be obscured with incompletely understood… 
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