Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Week 7; Fantasy about a cyborg mother

There are many comic images that I watched when I was young about a cyborg mother when I think of it. There were normally computer systems to take care of people’s needs. Why didn’t I  think at once that an incubator could be a cyborg mother?  In the movie or cartoon-especially Japanese Manga-, the characters of cyborg mother were really hideous. They were jealous of the real mother, tried to manipulate children’s fates or tried to kill, if they couldn’t have the children. Jaimie Smith-Windsor’s cyborg mother is an externalized  womb  under control-statist technology. Normally a cyborg mother is expressed in externalized emotion of mother, in other words, the possession of children and control in SF movies or SF fiction. Why do movie scenario writers or novelists express as incapable mothers to the cyborg mothers? The image of mother, usually, sacrifices many things for her child like Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Story of a Mother’ who sacrifices everything for getting back her child who was taken away by Death. I wonder why the writers have written that a cyborg mother is incapable. It may be that they wanted to suggest that a cyborg mother as a symbol of imperfect technology by humans and the writers hoped that people would control technology.