Humans were created as a sort cyborg prosthetic simian cultural and technical. The cyborgs suffer a melancholy result of uprooting: nostalgic for a natural world that can not return.
Melancholy is a state characteristic of modern culture-from a time that was thought to herself as exile and break with tradition, which became universal with printing and travel. Between nature and culture, between the earthly city and utopia, between technique and imagination, cyborgs space defined by metaphors such as 'border', 'journey' or 'nomadism', ie places of continual metamorphosis , diversity of languages and peoples, places of exile._x000D_
The most representative figure of modernity is Moses crossing the desert to escape the past, but not allowed to enter the promised land. Hence his disengagement with reality, his awareness of vulnerability. But his melancholy, being modern and ...read more