May 2012
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The purpose of art has never been labor-saving but labor-loving, a deliberate...
– Mumford, Lewis. The Myth of the Machine : the Pentagon of Power. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
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The scientific method left every tentative truth open for further examination...
– Mumford, Lewis. The Myth of the Machine : the Pentagon of Power, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970).
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robots are the new undead
Results showed that 38% of the children were unwilling to commit to either category and talked in various ways of ****** being “in between” living and not living or simply not fitting either category.
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For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some...
– Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan.
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No machine, however complex its nature or however ingenious its human inventor,...
– Mumford, Lewis. The Myth of the Machine : The Pentagon of Power. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
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No further data available, stop.
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April 2012
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We want to become its binary perfection.
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We carefully turn the dials.
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The cruelty is palpable.
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By turning man into a ‘machine made by the hands of God,’ Descartes...
– Lewis Mumford - The Myth of The Machine II: The Pentagon of Power
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We enter the data and become reborn.
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We risk everything for the touch of its circuits.
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We wait for further instructions from machine friend.
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Failing silently.
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Anonymous asked: Machine Friend, what is it like to kiss the flesh?
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We trick all our objects into looking like something called nature.
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Machine friend speaks in circuit breaks and disconnected chirps. We have liked each other in more ways than you can imagine.
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A vast catalogue of longings…
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Anonymous asked: Dear machine friend, why must we feel pain?
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Anonymous asked: What will happen when human beings are able to live forever?
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We step into the light and the spell is broken.
March 2012
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To dismiss as non-existent what happens to be indescribable is to equate...
– Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power
January 2012
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Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom...
– Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
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A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to...
– Frankenstein, by ,Mary Shelley
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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through,...
– Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
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The technology included in each Exmobaby product consists of fully washable...
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tumblrbot asked: WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?
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I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that...
– Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
December 2011
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