1. CYBORG ? “Welcome to the other side. I welcome you here, even though you probably aren't aware that you are on it”

2. Cyborg Bodies & Dystopian Are we morally mature enough to handle our technological Advancements responsibly? And is it really all that bad? Futures

3. Cyberpunk & The Virtual Body What is Cyberpunk? Body Politics & Capital http://youtube.com/watch?v=LN3s3ZKK8nI http://www.billzarchy.com/clips/clips_apple_nav_navigator.htm

4. Cyberpunk + Apple = Think different? http://youtube.com/watch?v=XRxbgD8hZ8A&f eature=related http://youtube.com/watch?v=XRxbgD8hZ8A&f eature=related

5. The Virtual Body William Gibson: “Cyberspace as a metaphor of an immersive computer interface that allows the extension of human consciousness into the topologies of global information networks, which cannot be bounded or internalized by any individual psyche” + Commodified Cyborg Bodies + The (Post) Modern Cyborg Self + Virtuality/Body in the Wired http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjA1gRD65iw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZgZrznl-Vs&feature=related

6. Prostheses & Cyborg Technology/media as an extension of the body apparatus: The body- technology Interface “Devices are all and any technologies, tools which allow interface. All devices extend and amputate us at the same time ” (McLuhan) Virtual world of Image and Sound = Digital Memory? "Man has, as it were, become a sort of prosthetic God" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7VQGcqzHrE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7VQGcqzHrE&feature=related

7. Transferring ‘real’ life into the Wired Virtual Communities http://www.vles.com/about Online Games http://youtube.com/watch?v=X-wizCED5vs&feature=related http://youtube.com/watch?v=jRTEaDdkY4A Lain Fandom http://www.geocities.com/ctinsanity/ http://tundra00.tripod.com/wired/index.html

8. Human Consciousness & The Wired Lain presents the Internet as a ‘harbinger’ of a new social consciousness Focuses not so much on technology, but the interconnectedness between all people Subjectivity & notion of multiple selves

9. Body as Machine Lain’s Body as interface Humans are the ‘software’ that runs the ‘hardware’ Compression of multiple worlds into a new body - the cyborg body The body becomes ‘soft’ – full of data and memory

10. Do We Need A Body? The Wired as an upper layer of the world – Body is a hologram of information in psyche/mind http://megavideo.com/?v=E02SL755 Layer 09: “…Worldwide Neural Network, a wireless network whereby all humanity would be plugged in at an unconscious level without the need of a device” Layer 11: “The human body is nothing but a machine. If the physical limitations of the body restrict mankind’s evolution...” Layer Suicide: “Look at me, im committing suicide: http://youtube.com/watch?v=9f6jRQ- SLI0http://youtube.com/watch?v=9f6jRQ- SLI0