Cultural & Media Studies 531

Ollivier Dyens’ book “Metal and Flesh” creates quite a stir among reviewers – some find his stand on the status and future of the body in a machine culture too bizarre to accept.  Others find it an interesting view into the future.  Dyens sees the body as a topographical meeting ground for biology and ideology – the body no longer a biological entity, but a cultural one.  Our body is based on the machines around us, our relationship impossible to dissolve.  He envisions a world filled with potential for human-machine symbiotic relationships.