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'''McCarron, Kevin. "Corpses, Animals, Machines and Mannequins: The Body and Cyberpunk."''' In ''[[Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Development]]''. Roger Burrows and Mike Featherstone, eds. London: SAGE, 1995. Online Publication Date: 31 May 31.

The essay opens with a quotation on the body by [[Descartes, Réne (mechanism: cosmological, biological)|René Descartes]], and then this (from opening paragraph):
 [...I]n his famous ''Meditations'', Descartes presents an argument for a mind/body dichotomy which remains highly influential today. Cyberpunk, too, is heavily preoccupied with philosophical issues, although many critics prefer to stress the cultural deficiencies of the genre. [...] However, in my view, the 'body' of texts, literary and cinematic, which comprises the genre of cyberpunk constitutes a sustained meditation, unrivaled in contemporary culture, on the Cartesian mind/body dichotomy.[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1357034X95001003015]



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