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Contemporary Western culture in the Information Age has been gradually eroding
the semiotic <A HREF="analytical.html">dichotomy</A> between <A HREF="biochip.html">biology
and technology</A>. Man and machine both exist now in a heavily-compromised
interstitial space that is very dangerous.<BR>
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As Neil Postman has noted, our computers catch 'viruses,' and people need
to be 'deprogrammed.' This interruption of the signifying process is more
than simply metaphorical; it denotes a very real decaying of our concept
of ourselves as <A HREF="human.html">human</A>.<BR>
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According to such <A HREF="witch.html">feminist</A> critics as Sobchack
and Kristeva, this is the result of a masculine discourse reflecting its
fear of the 'impurity' of the generative, procreative power of the feminine,
attempting instead to substitute a technological <A HREF="life_reproduce.html">reproductive</A>
paradigm.<BR>
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