Cyborgs Archives – Warhammer Conference

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The Cyborg Imperium: Servitors, ideology and Transhumanism in Warhammer 40,000

The Imperium of Man routinely lobotomises and augments criminals and heretics to create “servitors” who then serve as soldiers, labourers, and even computers. For the Imperium, this is an enhancement and a repurposing of supposed ‘undesirables’ into helpful tools. This talk engages with the figure of the servitor in Warhammer 40,000, and explores how it …

Cyborg Monstrosity: Disability, Augmetics, and the Limits of Humanity in Warhammer 40k

The Imperium of Man is an explicitly eugenic state, pursing its obsessive campaign of purifying humanity at all costs. Both those with conventional disabilities and the crip-coded psykers and mutants are routinely either purged from the gene pool or are “cured” through super-science that erase disability as an identity category, including via the elimination of …