Three seeds sewn

My name is Andrew Eglinton and I am the author of mechanical i - what is this blog about? That is the proverbial question that all bloggers ask themselves at one time or another. There is no definitive answer, just as there is no definitive answer to the question why are we alive? Or why have we not been contacted by other intelligent life forms by now? For the time being, we must bare the burden of having no answers to our age-old questions alone. However, one of the more recent 'sedations' able to abate this mind-numbing dilema, besides narcotics, prostitution, sport, art, work, politics etc, is blogging. In blogging I speak out to the world, and through this virtual utterance I am able to re-affirm my condition, the condition of myself entering an age of post-technology. In this new age, that lies just a short distance ahead of us, I am already becoming acquainted with the artificial 'I', the one that will replace the currently accepted organic/natural/psychological 'I', and I try to bring part of the experience of this paradigm back here, as fragmented as it may be.
But ultimately, as with most human undertakings this blog can also be seen as a vain attempt to leave a trace of myself in the world, now matter how fleeting that may be in 'cyber space'. In short I blog therefore I am.

mechanical i begins with three main premises:

1. The lens: The camera lens, the video camera lens, the spectacle lens, anything that comes between an object and it's viewer and thus forges a distorted picture of the world - one we have come to accept in our beloved media age, yet one which I am eager to question time and again.
2. The robot: The automaton, the machine, the electronic device powered by computers, the possible future (according to some) of our own species. How are we linked to the robot today? What and where is the robot in you and I?
3. Me: I, moi, 私, what is my purpose in amongst all this? Answers are what I search but the questions remain largely undefined. Perhaps one of the points, though I mean to say 'desires', behind this blog is the possibility it offers to unveil some of the questions, to lay them out on the table.

With these elements in mind, I take my fitst step on the plank over cyber-space - the fall (or the ascension) is going to be long and...well just very long.