The posters and illustrations that Kahn commissioned in the 1930s were meant to explain the complex workings of the body in intuitively understandable diagrams. For Kahn, the obvious analogies for bodily processes were the latest electronic and mechanical systems, which, in his images, tend to rely on miniature human workers, or more bizarre concepts.
To me this work suggests the body as a commodity, much like a car that has to work efficiently and be sufficient. With all the components working together in harmony to create a well old machine of superb efficiently.
These collages remind me of a much more updated version of this kind of concept - the film Robocop:
With this film a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him. Its the idea of becoming better, more stronger and faster, more than a human but still keeping your human traits...and the conflict between the two, to be efficient and yet still remain a person.
Again another similar film to this is Terminator:
The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced Terminator.
What i find interesting is that the Terminator who was once made to kill, is now trying to protect, and through human interaction has grown emotion and attachment to those he is protecting.
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