WALL-E: Descartes Meets Rabelais

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Dave Bonta

I digest, therefore I am. Mere consumption leads to stasis and death, but the self-aware machine builds phallic temples from the products of its digestion and outfits a shrine with fetish-objects from the civilization of the consumers. Life happens. Love happens. The consumers experience wonder, and start giving a shit.

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Dave Bonta (bio) crowd-sources his problems by following his gut, which he shares with one quadrillion of his closest microbial friends --- a tight-knit, symbiotic community comprising some 500 different species of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.
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2 Responses to WALL-E: Descartes Meets Rabelais

  2. Dick says:
    July 30, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    Saw it with Reuben this afternoon. We both loved it.