in between the role of what it meant to be ‘scholar roboticist’ and so he became a very good friend and he wrote wonderful poetry and I think that also helps me think about my own poetry and my own research and in the exploration of how languages of let’s say robotics or science or other kinds of language that typically don’t … that have very strict boundaries of what it can can’t be but how it can be subverted by way of the poetic or the scholarly and at the same time, how does a scholarly writing for expression exist.

I think that’s something I’m always trying to explore and explicate in terms of thinking the boundaries of form, whether it’s academic writing or poetry or other kinds of writing or expression and yeah, the similarities or the transgressions that must happen in between the two to begin to imagine other worlds.

Obviously in addition to being a poet, you’re also a scholar and I know that your scholarly research dovetails closely with the poetry you do but you also, I think a really nice job of demonstrating why those two genres or those two forms need to be separate or what each one can bring different questions to the fore or allow you to explore different ideas.

Tryborgs, in Weise’s view, are able-bodied “pretenders” attempting to improve their bodiesthrough the kinds of intimate infrastructures that dis-abled cyborgs use.