“The orbitalization of privacy through the erasure of machinic-organic boundaries, and the forging of an indissoluble connection between simulation and surveillance technologies. The cyborg and the clone as the paradoxical figures of the hyperization of privacy and its fantastic, absurd crash into nothing. The clone and the cyborg are the ultimate Others, inscrutable because they are perfectly known” (Bogard 145).
The above cartoon can be used to finally venture into the question of privacy for a cyborg? when everything that you are, or you claim to be, is on a system, that can be accessed/decoded both legally and illegally, what happens to the notion of privacy? what are the public and private spaces in the cyber-world? how are their forms and structures different from the spaces in the real world? Is faking every little detail about yourself an alternate way to ensure privacy?
Linked to the notion of public and private is the notion of surveillance. Is the cyborg always under scrutiny? We already know the various ways in which the state functions like a 'panopticon' and using the cyberspace is a common method of surveillance now. So how does one fight this and how do we resist hegemonic forces in the cyber-space?
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