"Nearness preserves farness."
- Martin Heidegger
"Das Ding," 1950
"...a robot has nothing to do with cybernetics."
- Gilbert Simondon
"Cybernétique et philsophie," 1953
"The dream of the yellow woman
subsumes a dream about the inorganic."
- Anne Anlin Cheng
Ornamentalism, 2019