"At a certain point in time, the motif of the doll acquires a
sociocritical significance. For example: 'You have no idea how repulsive
these automatons and dolls can become, and how one breathes at last on
encountering a full-blooded being in this society.'
-- Walter Benjamin, Arcades Project, (w
Glad to see some of that good BC weed has made it down under. I couple of
weeks ago I was working on the sandwichman-ifesto (but calling it the "lump
of Layard of fantasy") but had to put it aside because it was looking too
bleak or shrill or pedantic. Maybe reworked as the sandwichman-ifesto I ca
>The cyborg has nothing to add to the sandwichman, who was always already
>objectified, animated, redundant and in disguise.
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>((
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>CB: This could be a Beatles' song.
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And we the eggmen, calibrated prettily all in a row, ere we be beaten into
yellow matter custard that we might drip at
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The cyborg has nothing to add to the sandwichman, who was always already
objectified, animated, redundant and in disguise.
((
CB: This could be a Beatles' song.
Ian Murray wrote:
>that BC weed shouldn't be given to islanders.
Max Sawicky thinks my hallucinations come from eating too much beans.
Seriously, though, they are not MY hallucinations. The mythological (or
neurotic) cyborg represents something real but unspeakable. A search on two
search engi
that BC weed shouldn't be given to islanders.
Ian
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> The image of the cyborg entails a double process of objectification (of
> social relations) and anthropomorphic animation (of the resulting object).
> The analysis of this double process is already present in Marx's
> discussion
> of the c
The image of the cyborg entails a double process of objectification (of
social relations) and anthropomorphic animation (of the resulting object).
The analysis of this double process is already present in Marx's discussion
of the commodity fetish. Thus the cyborg is in a way a redundant figure.
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