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    Unplugging the Cyborg: The Female Cyborg Experience in James Tiptree Jr.’s The Girl Who Was Plugged In
    (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, 2024) Şen, Selis Yıldız; Akaltun Akan, Evren
    The concept of freedom is integral to cyberpunk literature and is prominently explored through the depiction of the cyborg figure, particularly female cyborg figure, as seen in James Tiptree Jr.’s novella, The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1973). Tiptree’s novella explores the intersection of the human and the machine in relation to agency, identity, and independence through P. Burke, who lives in and experiences sociality through Delphi’s synthetic body. Set in dystopian future, the narrative enables a critical investigation of human existence and freedom in the cyberpunk age’s intertwining organic and synthetic realms. As P. Burke navigates her existence in Delphi's body, the tension between genuine human desires and the constraints imposed by technological interfaces as well as organKc lKmKtatKons of the body evokes a certaKn questKon assocKated wKth such KntrKcate and conflKctKng sKtuatKon: Does the transformative cyborg experience liberate or subjugate the individual? Drawing on Deleuze & Guattari’s notion of rhizome and Donna Haraway’s explorations on how the figure of cyborg challenges the phallocentric Western discourse, this paper aims to examine freedom and agency within the portrayal of the female cyborg in James Tiptree Jr.’s The Girl Who Was Plugged In and argues that the cyborg experience presents both a deconstruction and reaffirmation of humanistic values in a shifting context.