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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 are frighteningly inert. [...] Modern machines are quintessentially microelectronic devices: they are everywhere and they are invisible. [...] Writing, power and technology are old partners in Western stor
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― Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
― Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
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If your mind is at sea, you cannot enjoy the harbor; If your mind is in port, you can't enjoy the sea! Wherever your mind is, take your body there; If you can't do that, bring your mind to your body!
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