today it’s fighting flu symptoms and neighbors who all do laundry on sundays. and Katherine Hayles.

on that note – interesting connection btw what Hayles thinks about the body-as-first-prosthesis and children’s fascination with anthropomorphized vehicles (Thomas the Tank Engine, Pixar’s Cars, etc.). It’s as though a child is working through these cyborg characters’ functionalities in order to better master their own body’s functions (not to mention they might emotionally identify with talking trains as they’ve only recently become talking trains themselves, of a sort.

No accident (no pun intended there) that the Thomas show is usually on when we’re training on the portable potty…

Not kidding.

…r