Cyborg is a fictional superhero in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez. 

 

Cyborg, named Victor, underwent the extensive artificial limbs and implants in his body and was cybernetically enhanced by his father to possess the ability to communicate, manipulate, and interface with technology.  Victor decided to equip himself with weaponized attachments to defend the terrorists from threat.  He is also a founding member of both the Justice League and the Teen Titans.

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The term cyborg (short for cybernetic organism) is “a self-regulating organism that combines the natural and artificial together in one system.  Cyborgs do not have to be part human, for any organism/system that mixes the evolved and the made, the living and the inanimate, is technically a cyborg” (Gray, 2).  The cybernetic transformation usually involves mechanical, technological, bioengineering and computerised modifications.

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According to Haraway (1985), a cyborg provides a means to suggest a way out of the traditional dualist stereotypes such as the oppressive binaries of sexual difference.  It escapes the power of patriarchy.  "The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self"(163) and it means both "building and destroying machines, identities, categories, relationships, space stories" (181).

 

Works cited:

Gray, Chris Hables. Cyborg citizen: Politics in the posthuman age. Routledge, 2000.

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Haraway, Donna. "A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late 20th century." The international handbook of virtual learning environments. 

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“Top 5 Cyborg Moments.” YouTube, uploaded by DC, 10 Sep 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQrkhurCSms&t=10s.

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Images:

Wikimedia Foundation. “Cyborg on the cover of Cyborg #1 (Sept 2015).” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg_(comics).

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Rokk. “Cyborg#1 Review.” Found, Comic Book Revolution, 22 Jul 2015, www.comicbookrevolution.com/cyborg-1-review/.