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This essay explores changes over time in the depiction of spatiality in narratives of machine-human hybrid embodiments, as humans have imagined and reimagined their relationship to technology and the physical environment. In particular, I focus on the way that the city is imagined and depicted vis-à-vis its opposite—the wilderness, the unsophisticated provinces, or the suburbs, depending on the time period—and how changing visions of the city parallel changes in the way people conceptualize human embodiment.
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Elizabeth Grosz, “Bodies—Cities;” in Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader, eds. Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick (New York: Routledge, 1999 ), 386.
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Tezuka Osamu, “Afterword,” in Metropolis, trans. Kumar Sivasubramanian (Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Comics, 2003 ), 164.
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Orbaugh, S. (2006). Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis: The Evolution of Body and City in Science Fiction Narratives. In: Brown, S.T. (eds) Cinema Anime. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983084_5
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