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"The body is an evolutionary architecture that operates and becomes aware in the world. To alter its architecture is to adjust its awareness. The body has always been a prosthetic body, one augmented by its instruments and machines. There has always been a danger of the body behaving involuntarily and of being conditioned automatically. A Zombie is a body that performs involuntarily, that does not have a mind of its own. A Cyborg is a human-machine system. There has always been a fear of the involuntary and the automated. Of the Zombie and the Cyborg: we fear what we have always been and what we have already become…."

from: From Zombies to Cyborg Bodies: Extra Ear, Exoskeleton and Avatars
Explorations in Art and Technology, 2002
 
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