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