Mechanomorphism

[2] It is considered to be one face of the man-machine duality (the "human-as-machine" side), the other being anthropomorphism of an intelligent device, like a computer (thinking of the "machine-as-human").

[1] When the reflection goes on in both directions, with real life engaged in machine-like behavior that in turn imitates real life, a term mechanthropomorphism is sometimes used,[3] for example, to describe a ballet where human dancers are performing as machines that engage in a human-like behavior.

[5][6] The use of the term to describe the mechanical metaphor of the neoclassical economics dates to K. H. M. Mittermaier (1986).

[7] In the visual arts, the mechanomorphism was used by the adherents of machine aesthetic to define the complexity of human behaviors and social interactions through the mechanistic symbols (electric spark power, spinning wheel inertia, confined movements of a mechanical joint), as in the works of Marcel Duchamp or Francis Picabia.

Picabia commented on his Voilà Elle, "Here she is, an incomplete tubular machine: “she” is simply the HOLE of the target, whose reaction to the shot wad of fire from the gun initiates her own continual penetration".