AT THE END OF NATURE - CYBORGS, HUMACHINES, AND ENVIRONMENTS IN POSTMODERNITY

In this paper I rethink some of the premises in industrial-era social ontologies by rethinking how hybridized agencies, like cyborgs, actor networks, or humachines, decenter anthropocentric modernist conception s of 'man and the environment'. By using postmodernist claims that we now operate after 'the end of Nature' or 'the death of Nature', I buil d this paper from such conceptual hyperbole to explore how cyborg life -forms or humachinic social formations are reshaping the natural and s ocial environments of contemporary fast capitalism on a global scale. These terms of analysis, in turn, could improve our understandings of the built and yet to be built environments in advanced technological e conomies and societies.