디지털 도시화와 사이보그 페미니즘 정치 분석: 인정투쟁의 관점에서 본 폐쇄적 장소의 정치와 상상계적 정체성 정치

Abstract

Fist of all, the age of digital urbanization has announced the emergence of a new form of human existence. The digital urbanization has created a new way of physicality and experiences, which is very alien to those who have experienced it through other media. Cyberspace in the digital age has created cyborg, a new form of human species that combines machines and human bodies, whose physical experience can be hardly understood for people living only in organic entities. Every cyborg, however, could not be free in the cyberspace. Especially cyborg-women have felt restraints, because the cyberspace is dominated by the urban imaginary based on the androcentered cultural imperialism. So the cyborg-women have tended to be closed in a place of gated community and to appeal an identity politics based on the biological sex of woman in order to ensure their safety. This paper argues that, as a result, this kind of cyborg-feminists cannot avoid the limits of identity politics that ignore the inner differences and changes.