Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.

Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?

Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.

In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the ‘West’s’ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space.

The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.