ABSTRACT
A Zombie is a body that performs involuntarily, which does not have a mind of its own. A Cyborg is a human-machine system that becomes increasingly automated. There has always been a fear of the involuntary and an anxiety of the automated. To be an intelligent agent, one has to be both adequately embodied and intimately embedded in the world. The Chimera is the body that performs with mixed realities. A biological body, augmented with technology and managing data streams in virtual systems. But the body itself is now becoming a mobile, monitoring and transmission system that can be logged into and accessed physiologically. In this age of body hacking, gene mapping, prosthetic augmentation, organ swapping, face transplants, synthetic skin and chimeras what it means to be a body, what it means to be human and what generates aliveness and agency becomes problematic.
