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50 Posts About Cyborgs

September 2010 was the 50th Anniversary of the coining of the term 'cyborg'. Over the course of the month, this site was updated 50 times with links to material — most of it new — celebrating 50 years of one of the 20th Century's more enduring concepts.
 
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  • 19. What strikes me most about Rob Holmes (of Mammoth)’s cyborg arboretum is the brutality of it all. Neither plant nor robot bodies are valued or cared for in the way that we’d like to think human bodies are, so there’s this underlying life-is-cheap disposability to them. Even houseplants find themselves drawn into a cycle of tortured existence the interior of a built space being nearly as hostile for plants as land is for fish. I can’t help but think of Greg Smith’s discussions of soldiers’ bodies (#16). a cyborg arboretum – mammoth // building nothing out of something

    19. What strikes me most about Rob Holmes (of Mammoth)’s cyborg arboretum is the brutality of it all. Neither plant nor robot bodies are valued or cared for in the way that we’d like to think human bodies are, so there’s this underlying life-is-cheap disposability to them. Even houseplants find themselves drawn into a cycle of tortured existence

    the interior of a built space being nearly as hostile for plants as land is for fish.

    I can’t help but think of Greg Smith’s discussions of soldiers’ bodies (#16).

    a cyborg arboretum – mammoth // building nothing out of something

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