And we still believe that a message instantiated in a body is a more truthful message, more real and more permanent, even if we stored it there and even if it is only a cryptogram of pixels and voltages. The body is still the privileged locus for reading and writing the messages of the eternal. So, we come full circle. By synthesizing our messages on the body, we prove that they, the messages, were not made by man. Synthetic becomes genetic.
Rhetoric becomes truth.
Encrypted becomes intelligible. Virtual is real. Exploring the rhetoric of synthetic images of the body in technology, business and culture articulates this question in a way that is useful to professionals in the field. These people regard the possibilities of interrelations between themselves and artificial life-forms as symbiotic, as something mutually beneficial and natural to do. In this presentation, I will focus on a few of the constructions and functions of bodily rhetoric.