Streszczenie
In Cyborg Manifesto Donna Haraway writes: “cyborgs (…) make very problematic the
statuses of man or woman, human, artefact, member of a race, individual entity, or body”.
This paper returns to the very beginning of thinking about this figure and examines the
first protocyborg images created by Futurist and Dada female artists. I also look at Dracula’s
Mina Harker as one of the first Western protocyborg figures. I ask to what extent such
images anticipated the new forms of subjectivity and how they made the relation between
human-nature and human-technology problematic as well as thinking in categories of
gender.