The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman

Hayles, Kathering. "The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman." 1993. Anthologized in Jenny Wolmark, ed. Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminist Theory, Cyborgs and Cyberspace. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999. Reviewed Veronica Hollinger, "Doing It for Ourselves: Two Feminist Cyber-Readers, our source here, q.v.[1]

Described by Hollinger as "an incisive look at the power of narrative to construct versions of techno-subjectivity that function as preliminary statements about our incipient real-world existence as posthumans. Along the way, Hayles develops detailed readings of the gendered cyborgs and tangled webs of production and reproduction in Bernard Wolfe’s anti-utopian masterpiece, Limbo (1952), John Varley’s "Press Enter" (1986), and C.J. Cherryh’s Cyteen (1988)."