{"id":4346,"date":"2011-09-06T10:10:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T14:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=4346"},"modified":"2011-09-06T10:11:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T14:11:06","slug":"natural-cyborgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/09\/06\/natural-cyborgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Cyborgs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Scientists in London \u00a0are working on an oral (rather than topical) form of sunscreen.<\/a> Specifically, they are synthesizing sun-propelling properties from coral to work in the body as a \u00a0defense for the human skin against the sun\u2019s damaging rays. This truly is a cyborg technology in Donna Haraway\u2019s use of the term<\/a>. It is a melding of human, animal, and machine. By ingesting the pill, the human biology is altered. This biological alteration in the human body is caused by its interaction and so enmeshment with the body and biology of the coral–an animal that was altered and synthesized using machine technology in a lab. Beyond a nice illustration of Haraway, the coral-based, human altering, technology reminds us that \u201cnature\u201d and \u201ctechnology\u201d are not mutually exclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scientists in London \u00a0are working on an oral (rather than topical) form of sunscreen. Specifically, they are synthesizing sun-propelling properties from coral to work in the body as a \u00a0defense for the human skin against the sun\u2019s damaging rays. This truly is a cyborg technology in Donna Haraway\u2019s use of the term. It is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[425],"tags":[2635,12212,10464,12210,12],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-donna-haraway","tag-machine","tag-medical-technology","tag-sunscreen","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4350,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}