Discussion Questions for William Mitchell's Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City

Questions by Members of English 65, The Cyborg Self, Brown University Fall 2006

• The Sketchy Line Between Humanity and the Cyborg
• Interconnectivity: A Moral Dilemma
• Another Bit of the Net
• The Mobile Cubicle
• Privacy Concerns in the Face of Developing Technology
• Big Brother 2.06
• Nobody Knows I'm a Cyborg
• Mediums: an extension of the human body and mind
• The Integration of Technology into Our Clothing and Bodies
• Direct vs. Simulated Experience
• Copy Cat

Questions by Members of English 65, The Cyborg Self, Brown University Spring 2005

• Degenerating Communities, the Work of Technology?
• Bits and Pieces
• No longer human?
• Discontinuities of the digital world
• William J. Mitchell's use of the example of Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds to illustrate the power of eyewitness narrative
• Phone Locations
• Sex, fluid flow, and technology
• A Look at Discontinuities
• My Postincrement?
• Nomadic Lifestyles in the Digital World
• The Loose-ends of Networked Culture
• Where is the self in a networked society?
• What is outside the self in a networked society?
• Cyborg Freedom?
• The self, or something that looks like it.

References

Mitchell, William J. Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.

Last modified 5 October 2006