“Bodies are both Zombies and Cyborgs. (..) We have always been prosthetic bodies. We fear the involuntary and we are becoming increasingly automated and extended. But we fear what we have always been and what wehave already become- Zombies and Cyborgs.”
-Stelarc
“While virtual consciousness acts as a mythic validation of the Age of Reason, second-order cyborgs (organic infrastructures with removable, integrated technological systems) are a common actuality. This situation often leads to the conjecture that the cyborg will be the step inbetween organic life and virtual life. However, when posthuman manifestations are taken out of the context of sci-fi speculation, and placed within the specific social and economic context of pancapitalism, a much different scenario emerges….”
- Posthuman Development in the Age of Pancapitalism 13, Critical Art Ensemble
“If human history is the story of a creature who molts from ape to angel — or, as Nietzsche claimed, from beast to Superman — then somewhere along the way it seems that we must become machines. This destiny is rooted in our own evolution. For as the engines of civilization pulled us farther and farther away from the unpredictable and often spiteful dance of nature, we withdrew from the animistic imagination that once immersed us in a living network of material forces and ruling intelligences. “
THE SPIRITUAL CYBORG by Erik Davis
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