“Beyond the discourse of the uncanny the artificial body is a representation of a corporeal brutality. The hyperfeminine robot is a figure that oscillates between a subject and an object. A non-sculptural object, non-plastic, which shares a few physical traits in common with its primary model. In this de-formed form mimetic transference lends little to the imagination”
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“By longing for touch, are we not suspended between the experience of lack and a sense of connectedness? Whatever the gap, the crack, the fissure that grants the separation between humans technology promptly fills it with imagos. Supplementing closeness and intimacy, simulating affect and a self”
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