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

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

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.

Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

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.

I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.