Nov
2
“We keep returning to this story about pod people, remaking Invasion of the Body Snatchers again and again, in 1956, in 1978, in 1994, in 2007, because we’re terrified of the continuing erosion of our physicality in the postmodern era. We’ve become virtual bodies wandering about in virtual worlds, while our real bodies stand numbly, bobbing their heads in iPod-induced machine-like flexion. We are losing our individuality more and more as our identities proliferate like screen names in the glow of our computer screens. As humans, we have become the not quite living, not quite dead.”
