Stelarc has another method of trying engaging the fetishism strategy, a method which resembles some of my discussions in the chapter 9 (in Italian: pp.145-160), I analyze the various processes of transforming of the carbon based body of living beings into the silicon based matter typical of robots and other non-living things. In that connection, I describe “Kismet,” a robot that has been designed to respond to human beings “as if” it were a human child. Then, I describe “Asimo” and its several prototypes, all of which have interactive capacities. But the major point of this chapter is not about the robots that are constructed to behave “as if” they were human. Ultimately, I am more concerned about the humans who want to transform human bodies into mechanical robot-like beings. Here I discuss such people as Natasha Vita More, founder of the Entropy Institute. Vita More (an invented name for sure) proposes that the human body be fused with machines by incorporating the metal-and silicon-based components that have been developed in the robotic and electronic technologies. (p.156)
What I am proposing is to design a full body prototype that functions like a human body but is not 100 percent biological. Rather it is a whole body prosthetic that acts either as a spare body or an alternative body. This body “Primo” would house the brain and whatever organs and essential parts (that) would not be replaced. The other parts would be prosthetic, synthetic models working together; forming a system that acts to transport us just like our human body does today5 .
 
As I comment on Primo, (p. 157) i say that, the necrophilic principle of the fetishism strategy is evoked by the fantasy that living, animate beings are potentially dangerous. Therefore, animate flesh-and-blood creatures should be controlled (p.158) introducing silicon-based life as a substitute for human experience is dangerous not only to individual human beings but to the entire human species. 
Stelarc very often behaves as if he is attempting to transform himself into a Primo. He proposes that we humans should be able to take out decaying natural organs and install improved artificial ones. He reasons “The only way I see is that the body is mass produced but at the moment it doesn’t have any replaceable parts. What we really need is a design approach. We should start to re-engineer the body.”  

At the Blue Skies conference on art and technology he presented his various plans to hollow out the body and fill in up with high test machinery in preparation for a life in space.  In his varied performances involving sensory deprivation, wiring his body for sound, filming his insides and hooking himself up to a robotic third hand, he presents a multiplicity of methods of mixing up the natural and the automated. At Blue Skies he proclaimed, “The important thing isn’t freedom of information, but freedom of form, freedom to mutate and modify our body.” 
One way that Stelarc attempted to illustrate this freedom was to have hooks implanted into various parts of his body so that his body could be suspended over different landscapes and cities. Photographs of Stelarc’s self-imposed ritual of pain and endurance make his so-called scientific explorations of the body in space, appear to be more akin Orlan’s body mutilation scenarios. However, Stelarc does not violate the boundaries of the human body to anywhere near the extent that Orlan does.
His philosophy, though very often enacted on the surface and insides of his body, is more contained in the realm of ideas. Admittedly, however, his mix-up between the natural and the artificial comes very close to being symptomatic of a failure of the fetishism strategy --- a symptom not too different from Orlan’s body mutilations.