Cyborgs in Film: Notes

Note #1: I should, of course, say "which" instead of "who" here, but because the automaton has a personality -- he is clearly a sentient being -- we are supposed to identify with him. Thus, he is percieved as a being, rather than an object. (back to text)

Note #2: Michael Heim, "The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace," Cyberspace: First Steps, Ed. Michael Benedikt, (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1991), pg 61 (back to text)

Note #3: Roger Ebert, review of Robocop, (published 17July87, accessed 22May97), (back to text)

Note #4: Heim, "The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace," pg 65-66 (back to text)

Note #5: ibid, pg 65 (back to text)

Note #6: ibid, pg 63 (back to text)

Note #7: Richard Appignanesi and Chris Garratt with Ziauddin Sardar and Patrick Curry, Introducing Postmodernism, (New York: Totem Books, 1995), pg 147(back to text)

Note #8: Heim, "The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace," pg 74 (back to text)