The Ersatz Human: Discarded Prosthetics Division

Thanks to Michael Wyatt Harper for the leg up, as it were.

Dear {CYBER} Abby: I AM IN LOVE WITH MY VIRTUAL GIRLFRIEND

Cool New Takes on the Mechanical Ersatz Human

Thanks to Michael Wyatt Harper, aka "El Jumpsuited Luchador," for this link/posting--hit the robot for more!

Priceless EC Comics Cover

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More Meditations on the Ersatz Human: Illustration Edition

More Ersatz Human Hijinks: The Ralph Lauren Edition

Piece by Piece with the Ersatz Human

Robot-Man Creature as Playground! From the new boingboing.net

Even More on the Erzatz Human, Old School Style!

More on the Ersatz Human: Gaby Wood on Phantom Limbs and More in Cabinet Magazine

Wood, a cool Mexi-Brit writer based in London, also knows a thing or two about Barbie™.

Yikes! Human Pillow Love Facsimiles!!!!

Ersatz Humans: 19nth Century Japanese Obstetrics Department

Mannequins, Money, and Bu$iness!

Terminator Meets Soylent Green at a Pig Farm...

Barbie: Everyone's Favorite Ersatz Human

Robots at War!

More Ersatz "American" Fun from Japan

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New Ethnic Mannequins from Old Navy!

Readers of my Ethnic Mannequins/Obscene Machine Graduate Seminar blog are well aquainted with my fetish when it comes to the ersatz human--so look what comes in with the newspaper this weekend, a Spanish-language circular for Old Navy featuring, literally, ethnic, "Mexican" mannequins. More on this in Eyegiene.

More Frightening Ersatz Human Facsimiles From History

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Plastic Meditations on Eros and the Body

Lost in Space Style Bucolic Reverie

Priceless! Domestic Robot Butler from Life Magazine

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Best Robots via Kottke.org

Yikes! My New Friend "Timmy"

Classic!

Eschewing the Heteronormative Bent of this Blog, Sort of Speak

More Human Facsimile Lore!

NSFW (click image for the story)

Amazing Archive of the Ersatz Human!

More High Fashion Fun With the Ersatz Human: Bruno Dayan

robot puppet arts by michael oswald

Cool.

Ersatz Babies!