Nov 03 2009

Hooked into Machine: Skeptical About a Full-Blown Techno-Apocalypse.

As I was reading for class the other night, I listened to a song by Regina Spektor titled “Hooked into Machine.” The main character of the song basically describes her life as a cyborg. She writes to the higher power that is “the Machine” because it “lacks [her] perspective” and it “lacks [her] organics.” Thus, […]

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Nov 01 2009

My Heart Goes “Beep”

One of the more interesting concepts in machinist apocalyptic thought is that of the cyborg. Part man and part machine, the two species merge as the necessary yet incestuous lovechild of evolution. The existence of the cyborg is not truly questioned because we have yet to truly examine what a cyborg is. The stereotype that […]

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