Post 100
22 May 06 in Commentary
See Wikipedia entry on The Laughing Man (Ghost in the Shell). See also The Laughing Man (Salinger).
See also Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto:
Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines. Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.
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