I suppose that I should have been more specific in my last post about the TV series The Last Enemy. Of course, I am a little concerned about ubiquitous technology & its obvious infringements upon our privacy, but I was more interested in the fact that Stephen thought that he had become 'less than human' because he had a chip implanted under his skin.
Several times in the last episode the director used a close up shot of a hypodermic needle being inserted under a patient's skin & again when Stephen was attempting to remove blood from Yasim (an obvious metaphor of his desire to sexually penetrate her), which shows that technology is not perceived as polluting when it is only a short term invasion of the body stratum.
Given that medical prosthesis have been used in the body to replace body parts & this has become quite commonplace over the past four decades, why do we still worry about the purity & ontological integrity of the human body?
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