Machine (song by Spektor)

Spektor, Regina. "Machine." On Far album. USA: Sire Records, 2009. As of April 2023, credits and lyrics given here,[1] with lyrics available several places on the web, and the song, with a clockworks graphic, on YouTube here.[2]

Joshua Ellis notes that the "Song [is] from the perspective of someone who is 'part of a composite' that is 'hooked into [a] machine' and 'downloaded daily'" (e-mail, 23 April 2023).

See for variations on the themes of the cyborg[3] and uploaded/downloaded personalities, for which see The Müller-Fokker Effect and the works cross-listed there, and, viewed more positively, the immortality of sorts in Frederik Pohl's gigabyte space; and such works as the TV series Upload.

Joshua Ellis, 2023; RDE, finishing, 23Ap23