Rowan Laing
On David Cronenberg
Videodrome and eXistenZ both revise concepts of physical presence in relation to media technology. Both films depict media as extensions of the body, creating the sense that technology is indeed part of us. Cronenberg expresses this concept literally in the films by meshing the body and technology together, focusing intensely on the form that the body is translated into when interacting with media. In Videodrome and eXistenZ the body is technologized, and technology is humanised. Therefore Cronenberg breaks down the traditional binary oppositions between man and machine, creating a "new flesh" from the transmutation of the body. -- Rowan Laing in http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/spring2000/laingone.html [Jul 2004]
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