Body Electric, Bionic and The Problem of Fashion in Cyber Era
In 1855 Walt Whitman wrote, “I Sing the Body Electric” (1973, p. 93). The great apologist of bodily sensuality was using the adjective electric in the sense of exciting or thrilling. Today we might say “electrifying.” But Whitman not only enthusiastically championed the body’s grandeur. He also eulogized the landscapes of the nascent technical-industrial era. …
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