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A material feminist critique would point out the gender dichotomies lurking in Ballard's mind/body dualism and examine how the wish to be free of the vulnerable (mother's) body betrays an epistemology that distances and supposedly protects the masculine, transcendent knower from the realities, complications, and risks of the material world. The fantasy of masculinist knowledge, of control over the depths of the ocean, relies upon the projection of corporeality onto the womb-like submersibles with their umbilical-cord tethers. Conversely, the more advanced robotics and telecommunications technologies are cast as pure intellect, a masculine melding of mind and machine that weirdly erases the eyes and hands -- not to mention the hearts, lungs, and other bodily organs -- that these technologies will still require.