Meat Manifesto

"The imagery of cyberpunk authors, and of a few virtual world builders, echoes with images of purely phantasmic bodies, freed from the constraints that flesh imposes. They take for granted that the human body is 'meat' - obsolete, as soon as consciousness itself can be uploaded into the network.... [But] it is important to remember that forgetting about the body is an old Cartesian trick, one that exacts a price from those bodies rendered invisible by the act of forgetting - those on the lower end of the social scale by whose labor the act of forgetting is made possible."