Technological utopias mask a fear of our embodied vulnerability

Evidence

In Becoming Animal, Abram writes that “all our technological utopias and dreams of machine-mediated immortality may fire our minds but they cannot feed our bodies. Indeed, most of this era’s transcendent technological visions remain motivated by a fright of the body and its myriad susceptibilities, by a fear of our carnal embedment in a world ultimately beyond our control—by our terror of the very wildness that nourishes and sustains us.” — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 125

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Echoes the ‘death drive’ point in paragraph 126 and the reader’s interest in how technology denial of the body shapes attention.