Lexicon

Abject
Accretion
Actant
Aeration
Aerobic
Algae-boosted
Animal
Anthropomorphism
Anti-Continuous Construction
Apocalypse
Aquaculture
Aquanaut
Ark
Artificial Intelligence
Autopoiesis
Assemblages
Asymmetry
Atrophy
Attraction
Autarchy
Automata
Automation
Autosymbiosis
Bambassador
Bathyscaphe
Bioconurbation
Biomedia
Bionics
Biosphere
Biotechnique
By-product
Capacity
Actant
Coisolation
Composting
Conservative Surgery
Consumer Envelope
Consumption
Continuous Construction
Conurbation
Correalism
Cultural_Memory
Cybernetics
Cybertecture
Cyborg
Dispositif
Diving Saucer
Dross
Earthship
Ecocatastrophe
Effluvium
Egosphere
End-use
Entanglement
Eutopia
Feedback
Foam
Folk
Gadget
Garbage House
Green Cyborg
Heuristic
Hoard
Holism
Homogenization of Desire
Hostile
Human Affect
Hybridized Folk
Hydroponic
Hyper-Materialism
Information Economy
Inner Space
Interama
Intra-Uterine
Maque
Megalopolis
Min-use
Mobility
Monorail
Multi-Hinge
Non-Design
Oceanaut
Oppositional Consciousness
Organic
Ouroboros
Panarchy
Parasite
Perceived Continuation
Permanence
Place
Prototype
Post-Animal
Reclamation
RI: Data Farms
RI: Garbage and Animals
RI:Shipbreaking
RI: Toxic Sublime
Sampling
Scale
Sensing Structure
Simulacrum
Simulation
Soft Energy
Spaceship Earth
Submersible
Superwindow
Symbiosis
Synthetic Environment
Technocratic
Technological Heredity
Technological Sublime
Telechirics
The Sublime
Thermal Panel
Actant
Thing-Power
Thinking Machines
Tool
Toxic Withdrawal
Turbulence
UV-Transparent Film
Vibrant Matter
Waste
Work

ASYMMETRY

The boundaries between physical and non-physical barriers are broken down by cyborg culture. A cyborg is a hybrid of machine and human, and of social reality and fiction1.This fusion of elements created by cyborgs is productive in so far that for both Donna Haraway and Anthony Vidler, the cyborg is a platform for presenting issues which are important to them. Haraway's cyborg addresses social and political boundaries, and for Vidler the cyborg deals with the relationship between human and architectural space.

For Haraway there are three crucial boundary breakdowns; of the biological-deterministic ideology, the distinction between animal-human and machine, and of physical and non-physical. Haraway says that a cyborg world might be about social and physical realities in which people are not afraid of their joint kinship with animals and machines, and not afraid of permanently partial identities2.The cyborg acts very much as a mediator, bridging the gaps of contradictory standpoints and projecting future possibilities.

For Vidler the cyborg deals with the fusion of human and machine or human and animal. For instance when he speaks of Tristin Tzara's idea of intra-uterine architecture, Vidler is referencing a human-animal cyborg, one who inhabits a space through primitive interaction. The home has a prosthetic relationship to the user. When Vidler speaks of Dali's concept of hyper-materialism, the object is assembled in a way such that it embodies a tight connection with its creator as a result of the processes behind its conception. With no apparent construction logic, the aesthetic of the author now takes over the aesthetic of the machine and they have a prosthetic relationship. 3

Citations
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.“A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century”. 1991, New York: Routledge, pp.117
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.“A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century”. 1991, New York: Routledge, pp.122