Jennifer Gonzalez "Envisioning Cyborg Bodies" In The Cyborg Handbook; edited by Chris Hables Gray, Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera, and Steven Mentor; New York: Routledge, 1995 (pp. 267-80) Jennifer Gonzalez suggests that cyborg representations act as symptoms, expressive of multiple social fears and desires, and driven by a Foucaultian 'positive unconscious.' In this understanding, Gonzalez contextualizes the cyborg in a history of boundary figures, outlining a continuum from Robert Longo's sculpture 'All You Zombies' (1990), to representations as old as the 18th century French engraving "L'Horlogere," Julien Offray de La Mettrie's 1748 essay "L'Homme Machine," and the Czech golem myth. While allowing for differences between these representations, Gonzalez affirms a strong, 'hyper-historical' continuity in these characters, and encompasses the diverse boundary myths under the singular category 'cyborg': "The image of the cyborg has historically recurred at moments of radical social change." Gonzalez further advocates for a radical change in identity politics by redefining hybridity, miscegenation, and passing. Rather than define these terms in opposition to purity, essence, and breeding, Gonzalez proposes a new ontology of multiplicity: "Hybrid beings are what we have always been-regardless of our 'breeding.'" She concludes her essay by arguing for a progressive cyborg image, a 'vision of new ontological exploration.' L.E. Fazen