A Borganism is a collective group of organisms which have been technologically augmented to the point of grotesqueness, resembling, even, a sort of techno-were undead creature, which is networked, producing a collective conciousness as an emergent phenomenon of the networking. The word derives from "cybernetic organism", which has spawned similar words such as cyborg and The Borg, from the 1990's sf television show, Star Trek: The Next Generation in which The Borg are a synthetic civilization of borganisms highly networked together in a vast interspecies interstellar empire.

The Borg were created for the show to illustrate the pratfalls and danger to individual liberty embodied in collectivism in the post-Soviet era . In this The Borg serve as warning fiction . However, later in the series, left-leaning writers attempted to write episodes that depicted individual borganisms in a sympathetic light.