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As abstraction, the bodied-object no longer resembles us alone. Our bodies accessorized, attached, hooked up to small wired black devices that we bring with us everywhere, became uniform. The millenia of clothes and decoration were highlights individuating our bodies' translucent lumpy bag across cultures, differentiating. But now every body contains a little black box.
See too:
“Flat Neighbors” at Rachel Uffner