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Mar. 24th, 2021 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavI really like using the word 'glitchy' to describe this meatbag.
There's other words, but those same words are loaded as fuck and sometimes they're right to use, but other times I just really ... don't .... want to.
there's the whole instant computer association with "glitch" - 'good' and 'bad' terms are removed for a much more neutral canvas. There's some glitches that are annoying, absolutely - most of them are (from a printer jamming to an ear battery running out) - but there's also some humorous glitches, 'feature not a bug's' (me being able to "take out my ear" at night and sleeping like a damn log every night, heh) ... and all the way down the line.
likewise, also - the idea that "hacking" one's body with mechanical improvements is not as bizarre as it may seem to some; it's already talked about especially in tech spheres, and applies a sense of ... tactile? realness? that's within hand's reach of anyone. Glasses are a little bit of a stretch as an example but could very easily be included in the sphere of biohacking. Anyone with implants (pacemakers), that's another one, or medical/mental aids, joint replacements.... you're not changing a pristine "untainted"" body, as much as simply adding or removing augmentations as you prefer and/or need.
and there is something beautiful also to the machinery of biology - there's some constants, there always is, nature can be unforgiving about many things - but it's also incredibly forgiving in other ways once when you bring human ingenuity and technology (and the march of medicine as a field) into the mix. Sometimes we make mistakes. Sometimes we improve a life to a radical point where they interact seamlessly in the bigger cog of humanity as a whole, and how they would like to.
There's other words, but those same words are loaded as fuck and sometimes they're right to use, but other times I just really ... don't .... want to.
there's the whole instant computer association with "glitch" - 'good' and 'bad' terms are removed for a much more neutral canvas. There's some glitches that are annoying, absolutely - most of them are (from a printer jamming to an ear battery running out) - but there's also some humorous glitches, 'feature not a bug's' (me being able to "take out my ear" at night and sleeping like a damn log every night, heh) ... and all the way down the line.
likewise, also - the idea that "hacking" one's body with mechanical improvements is not as bizarre as it may seem to some; it's already talked about especially in tech spheres, and applies a sense of ... tactile? realness? that's within hand's reach of anyone. Glasses are a little bit of a stretch as an example but could very easily be included in the sphere of biohacking. Anyone with implants (pacemakers), that's another one, or medical/mental aids, joint replacements.... you're not changing a pristine "untainted"" body, as much as simply adding or removing augmentations as you prefer and/or need.
and there is something beautiful also to the machinery of biology - there's some constants, there always is, nature can be unforgiving about many things - but it's also incredibly forgiving in other ways once when you bring human ingenuity and technology (and the march of medicine as a field) into the mix. Sometimes we make mistakes. Sometimes we improve a life to a radical point where they interact seamlessly in the bigger cog of humanity as a whole, and how they would like to.
