What is a woman if not a machine? What is a machine if not a woman?

Of Techne and Logos examines these questions by reading the cyborg as both a disciplinary aesthetic ideal and a condition we already inhabit, in which fantasies of bodily transcendence converge with deeply historical systems of gendered control. Hosting a collection of essays on the cyborg's encounters with digital systems, aesthetic standards, and structures of power, its writing takes the cyborg as a method of inquiry, while its (web)site stakes a claim for independent digital publishing.