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The Joey Machine
Click to view slideshow. In the summer of 2011, Australian artist Ian Haig collaborated with Kotoe Ishii, who holds an MFA from the Victorian College of the Arts, to create an installation piece...
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The Boy Machine
A human body that functions as if it were a machine and a machine that duplicates human functions are equally fascinating and frightening. Perhaps they are so uncanny because they remind us that the...
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Joey, the “Mechanical Animal” Boy
“I laid myself as an egg, hatched myself, and gave birth to me.” The hen electric, pregnant with the electric fetus. (The Empty Fortress 323)I just finished reading the mammoth chapter on Joey in Bruno...
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New Talk: The Hen Electric and the Mechanical Boy
“The Hen Electric and the Mechanical Boy: Joey, Bruno Bettelheim, and the Empty Fortresses of Humanism.” Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the...
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