the dynamics of Plant's cyborg subject

I’m interested in how exactly the body emerges for Sadie Plant in the virtual space, how her notion of the “cyborg” departs from other cyborg subjects we have discussed in class and how if at all terror/danger is elicited by her conception.

I think that her move to historicize the connection between technology and femininity effectively reveals the overlooked feminine properties of the virtual space. Her move back into history appears at first to be an attempt to reveal a kind of lost origin of technology—this origin being fundamentally female. She seems to want to bring the peripheral “means” of the ends to the forefront, in which the female view from the periphery emerges as an exalted, technological standpoint, “a new conception of the world..,” one which reveals, “the interconnectedness of everything” (3). However, it is interesting how the very tracing of the intimate and dynamic relationship between technology and femininity denies the possibility of any kind of liner, origin-driven historical structure.

I like her depiction of the Net as a parasite, which exemplifies a rejection of a central authority or power structure as the hub of generating technological processes. I also think that her depiction of bacteria which, “replicate and mutate without regard for any individuation” (242) is an especially provocative metaphor in terms of thinking about Plant’s newfound cyborg subject which I believe she argues has properties, “continually interacting with each other, constituting new systems, collecting and connecting themselves to form additional assemblages” (162).
What is at stake in this lack of orientation and lack of a central/organizing structure, lack of individuation-- and how may it infuse terror in its production of cyborg bodies?

I’m also interested in Plant’s narrative form and how people have been talking about its metatextualily in its interweaving of quotes and dislocated texts. I’m wondering if it is in fact effective in epitomizing the matrix of the female, technological body/space.