Cyborg empathy for the age of (in)difference (CAPÍTULO)

Abstract
Cyborgs pushes to find ways of undoing the epistemological boundaries, diffusing the content of these concepts and allowing them to react in many generative and surprising ways. This has rendered these boundaries (and thus the categories) many times confusing, problematic and even senseless. Cyborg empathy shows that shared difference can be a force that brings together, that unites people, beings, opinions, experiences and things in general, instead of being that which sets them apart. Hence, cyborg empathy is centered on shared difference as an attracting force. Cyborg empathy makes it possible to “do difference together”. Difference should not be ignored, it should not be made indifferent, it should be shared. Cyborg empathy seeks to respect oneself and the other as simultaneously different and similar. It is a patient empathy that stays with the trouble of difference, that is not afraid of feeling uncertainty, that allows confusion and takes time to listen.