1.24 Windows and the Body Part 2: The Anatomical, Abandoned Body and its Shadows

"Man is himself, is man, only at the surface. Lift the skin, dissect: here begin the machines. It is then you lose yourself in an inexplicable substance, something alien to everything you know, and which is nonetheless the essential."

-Paul Valéry, Notebook B

“‘The monsters we create by way of an advanced technological civilization are ourselves as we cannot hope to see ourselves—incomplete, blind, blighted, and, most of all, self destructive.’”

-Joyce Carol Oates 

Dead body: https://i.imgur.com/Uzosq0j.jpg

Corpse: https://i.imgur.com/gGmJo1b.png

“Spectator, specimen, spectacle belong together. They are, so to speak, the codes of a technological civilization, the signatures, as it were, of self, body, world. When the self becomes a spectator and the body a specimen, the world becomes a spectacular place.”

-Romanyshyn

Sources: https://old.reddit.com/r/DilettanteryPodcast/comments/p3k0et/124_windows_and_the_body_part_2_the_anatomical/?