Taylor Drew reviewed サイボーグになる by キム・チョヨプ
世界が注目するSF作家と、俳優にして弁護士の作家。ともに障害当事者でもある二人が、私たちの身体性とテクノロジーについて縦横に語る。完全さに到達するための治療でなく、不完全さを抱えたままで、よりよく生きていくための技術とは？ 韓国発・新しい社会と環境をデザインするための刺激的な対話。韓国出版文化賞受賞作。
Disability and SFF
4 stars
This is a Korean non-fiction book translated into Japanese that I would absolutely love to see in English. It's written by a Korean SF author and a lawyer, activist, and performer, and they talk about perceptions of disability and the relationships we have with technology and disability.
I say we because the book is a lot about how technology does or doesn't improve the lives of disabled people, but it's also about perceptions from people who aren't disabled and how everyone's relationship with various technologies impact overall accessibility and effect sense of self.
Something that also came up again and again was the idea that we should be primarily focusing on making lives better now instead of fantasizing about potentially distant future technologies. There easy things that can be done now and simply aren't being done.
I don't really have anything super meaningful to say about this …
This is a Korean non-fiction book translated into Japanese that I would absolutely love to see in English. It's written by a Korean SF author and a lawyer, activist, and performer, and they talk about perceptions of disability and the relationships we have with technology and disability.
I say we because the book is a lot about how technology does or doesn't improve the lives of disabled people, but it's also about perceptions from people who aren't disabled and how everyone's relationship with various technologies impact overall accessibility and effect sense of self.
Something that also came up again and again was the idea that we should be primarily focusing on making lives better now instead of fantasizing about potentially distant future technologies. There easy things that can be done now and simply aren't being done.
I don't really have anything super meaningful to say about this book other than that I really enjoyed it and that as I'm trying to write my feelings about it I'm realizing that I don't know how to articulate anything about it at all, but it was really impactful read for me, especially with my recent increase in disability after my diagnosis of several autoimmune conditions. It helped me recenter myself in terms of my own disabilities and I think anybody who can read either Japanese or Korean should give this a try!
