Early Automatons

A fast and dirty link to boingboing.net for a story on an uncanny, early 20nth century automaton.

Miss Autonoma, 2008

The peculiar and relentless evolution of ersatz companions augers odd futures for our species. Suspicious? Then go here to be assured!

Our Ethnic Mannequin Graduate Seminar: An Allegory

Go here--and don't miss the "mannequin" in the image.

Which one? Exactly!

Simply Brilliant!

More Musings on Animatronic Romance!

Boingboing.net is in the house with a link to an interview with the author of Love & Sex With Robots, David Levy.

Maria, The Porcelain Mexican

Just a quick post to drop a link over to the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog, where a non-robotic "Mexican" siting is documented.

Hegemony of the Human!

Anthropomorphic personifications, personified anthropomorphisms--humans, humans everywhere....

Lars and the Real Girl

What with the wild fires and a book tour and learning how to chair, I don't really have time to do this justice, but a film just came out that basically embodies the words and images associated with this blog. See it soon and tell me what you think! I will post your findings here asap!

Ebert likes it! Go figure.

Here's the trailer:

The Obscene Machine Meets Eyegiene...

"See" the story here.

Robot/Human Intrigues

I just would not be doing my job, chronicling tales of ersatz humans and their flesh and blood lovemates, if I did not pass on to you this little tale from the 21st century. The original post is off MSNBC here.

update

Reader Sam Arredondo just zapped in this related link as an update.

Very Cool Chinese Medical Poster | Literally, the Human Machine

Though this Class is Over, the Web Rolls On and On

Just a quick link to a boingboing.net piece on robotic erotica--an ongoing concern of this blog.

Zeno

One part ethnic mannequin with the soul of an obscene machine, Zeno is the next great step in the march to a cyborg world. Click here for the story.

Automatons for Children as Cannabis Purveyors

Not exactly robots or cyborgs, but curious all the same..

The Body Politic

A quick link to an artist's website that fuses the Obscene Machine's ongoing obsession with the ersatz, textuality, body as canvas, etc...

More on People, Mostly Men, and their Ersatz Companions

Readers of these memes know that a fair amount of space is taken up by interrogations of humans and their cyborg/animatronic friends. The BBC weighs in with its findings in this regard:



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Rustboy

Pixar meets Tim Burton in this peculiar and moving automatonic project!

Little Robot Dude Web Assistant

This is merely an interface for accessing the design archive of the Funnel Design Group, but it embodies a cool retro form of an obscene machine that is gorgeous, clever, and functional.

Beautiful Kinetic 'Monsters'

The Obscene Machine project goes back online with a BMW 'commercial' that is more about aesthetics than commerce, more about movement than phenotype:

Grotesquely Fascinating Stereotyping

One of our talented e493 undergraduates has weighed in with a link!

To: bnericci@mail.sdsu.edu
Subject: South of the Border
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:03:07 -0500

Greetings Professor Nericcio,

Apparently there was a party at Santa Clara University that "sparked outrage" among members of the Multicultural Center as well as school officials. I wanted to share since it fit right in with our studies under the heading of "Grotesquely Fascinating Stereotyping."

Caitlin Petrakovitz | ENGL 493

UPDATE



of course, it has happened again! Thanks to Stephen W. Bender for the headsup! A CNN video will be here until CNN yanks it. Viva la fiesta, I guess!?