| Summary: | Living in a world that becomes more and more similar to the cyberpunk universe, human beings transform progressively their behaviours and lifestyle, submitting partly to the proceedings imposed by machines, talking their language, adopting their codes. So is the contemporaneous human being inevitably marked by a “devenir-machine” that assimilates him to a cyborg, or cybernetic organism. In SF, cyborgs and cybernauts are characterized by an extra powerfull, material or immaterial, body which is invested by perpetual tensions. If the cybernetic organism is not well controlled, the human component can become a slave of the machine side, loosing emotion and memories, with the risk of dying. Thus, the principle of regulation, offering the possibility of disconnection, reveals itself as essential. In the same way, in the decadent political world described by a lot of cyberpunk novels, the absence of a principle aiming to regulate the society leads to a tyranny upon minds and bodies, resulting also from the realization, or attempts of realization, of fantasms as universal communion and absolute transparency.
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