This extension of himself by mirror numbed his perceptions until he became the servomechanism of his own
extended or
repeated image. The nymph Echo tried to win his love with fragments of his own speech, but in vain. He was numb.
He had
adapted to his extension of himself and had become a closed system.
— Marshall McCluhan, “The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis,”
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)
Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our
tools to
ourselves.
— Donna Haraway, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in
the
1980s,”
The Socialist Review, 1985
