Body Electric may refer to these artworks, all named after I Sing the Body Electric (Whitman), an 1855 poem from Leaves of Grass by the American poet Walt Whitman:
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“There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self- employment and artistic autonomy.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)