But even more. Longo's body of work can be seen as consisting of techno-bodies not dissimilar to Gibson's character. Noncommunicative, they are lost souls complicit in a power structure that exerts force beyond their understanding. In his parody of power, Longo, like Cindy Sherman and others of his generation, pictures de-persons. In the combines of the early and mid nineteen-eighties Longo heightens the collision of information.
Conclusive meaning is suspended with emphasis placed on the fracture, the dividing of parts.
The grotesque finale of Longo's combines, however, is to be found in monsters. With the increasingly abstract works of the late eighties the presence of individual is seen to be subsumed by larger forces. The body is made present only in its noticeable absence. They, like the Johnny Mnemonic character, become the receptacles for technologies. Force of Choice is perhaps Longo's leanest, most severe work.