Beetle was no longer flesh. The fractals had taken possession, moving in swirls and arabesques through every part of him. He was the Shining Man, the walking firework. The book wants to offer an analysis of the underlying processes of the blurring of the borders between biology and technology. The blurring of borders, their becoming indistinct or even their disappearance between areas which were once distinct and often opposites, appears to be accelerating constantly in our time.
Scientific disciplines overlap more and more.
The classical modern distinction, for instance, between the humanities and the natural sciences is replaced by an interdisciplinary approach through which the scientists discover more and more connections between their disciplines. The same is true for the relation between biology and technology, and therefore between the living, the organic, and the mechanical in the widest sense. In architecture, in the medical sciences and in the media the notion of inside and outside are merging in relation to buildings, bodies and communication spaces. In the description of the elementary changes and the shared processes which determine all scientific and artistic disciplines in relation to the technological we get to the roots of machine art. Viewed from the persepctive of machine art, the different developments in the field of dissolving disciplines can be more easily placed, and it becomes clear how this art relates to the processes which are taking place in many areas of society.