History and Latino/a Identity

Artificial anatomy

“…And in his case, the eye resembles the human eye not because of aesthetics, but because in no case is it more obvious that the physiology (of the human eye) derives from the anatomy. As Antonio Machado, the great Spanish 20th-century poet said, "the eye is not an eye because you see it, but because it sees you" (Machado, 1924). And with a hefty dose of cinematic license, let us say that Deckard might well subscribe to the idea "what matters is whether the exoskeleton walks, not whether it looks like a human leg", though for it to walk, it probably would have to resemble a real leg.…”