Body Production, Field Tension, and Emancipatory Potential: A Philosophical Analysis of the Cyborg Problem in the Posthuman Era

The emergence of intelligent machines has ushered humanity into a posthuman society of human-machine coexistence, in which the cyborg plays a significant role. Consequently, a philosophical analysis of the cyborg problem has become an essential question of the posthuman era. From the dimension of corporeality, the cyborg is a combination of human and machine, representing a new materialist interpretation of body production in posthuman society and manifesting a new form of embodied production. From the political dimension, the cyborg resists biological determinism, essentialism, and patriarchal capitalism, striving to explore possible pathways toward gender socialization, gender differentiation, and gender equality. From the emancipatory dimension, the cyborg's future points toward the construction of an ideal society, engaging with Marx's series of reflections on social formations and opening up a possible path of anti-capitalism. Thus, the cyborg reconstructs the multidimensional connections between technology and the organism, facilitates a social transformation in the forms of labor, and opens up the possibility of a new form of intelligent society.