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Friday, August 28, 2009
Addendum to previous post
My title for this lecture is based on my observation that a tripartite does occur in Stelarc’s work however, I’m in no way alluding that there is any symbolic significance attached to the number three by Stelarc, instead the word tripartite refers to either the biological/synthetic/virtual body or the multiple/fragmented and dispersed body that occurs through the collision of the human body with communication and biomedical technologies.
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Steve reminded me that, 'Freudians have also commented on threes, which is the number of the smallest family unit etc..', but I think that kind of reading would annoy Stelarc a lot! That's primarily why I wanted to make it clear that I identified the tripartite as the three ways that he has presented the body, ie, either virtual, synthetic or biological.
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