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The Right-Left Dichotomy
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World employs the use of parallels, some similar and some contrasting, in order to explore the divide between exterior physical world of the body and the interior conscious world of the mind. … Continue reading
Weaponized Animals
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2517413/The-kamikaze-canines-blew-destroy-Nazi-tanks-WWII-photographs-reveal-Stalins-dogs-war-explosives-strapped-them.html We3, short for Animal Weapon 3, presents an alternative reality and quasi-dystopian view of how humans hierarchize other life and thereby employ it as a means to an end. Many of those participating in the weapons research project treat … Continue reading
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Emergence – Moving Beyond Humanity
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCYQFjABahUKEwih6IiptunIAhXHPCYKHfKdAeU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEx_Machina_(film)&usg=AFQjCNF4bPonuIgI9GFqMqOk24Wj75bjng&sig2=GTcOn5ZvHdnP6SMltTjHZw The denouement of the recently released film Ex Machina (SPOILERS) involves an Artificial Intelligence acquiring a physical body, in exteriority similar to that of a human, and manipulating the human characters in order to escape from its confined existence and … Continue reading
Destabilizing the Hierarchy of Humanity
For reference in the post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS3PGKUiSco Set in the Floating Museum, Ghost in the Shell‘s penultimate scene and its featured tank battle not only subvert the stigmas surrounding alterity and being but also reconsider the contested question of existence. Regarding the scene’s … Continue reading
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Breaking the Metaphor – Second Life Experience
Perhaps its the bias that I bring from Snow Crash or my understanding of VR through more modern technology, but Second Life and its universe felt hollow to me. Although the world was populated with people and activities, the metaphor … Continue reading
Examples of the Hyperreal: Ghost Cities in China
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/07/20/what-will-become-of-chinas-ghost-cities/ Because of its rapid economic development, China has constructed several cities that it intends to fill with people and their burgeoning activity. However, the cities often experience a time gap between construction and occupation and use, resulting in a … Continue reading
Bodily Occupation and Corporal Politics
In addition to its prophetic introduction of cyberspace and the matrix, Neuromancer poses the question about what it means to occupy a physical body, either organic or artificial, and whether the need to be physically manifested hinders the potential of … Continue reading
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The Buddha in the Robot
Here’s an article examining the concepts of Buddhism in robots: http://jetpress.org/v23/borody.htm
The Creation’s Inception – Birth of the “Other”
A close reading of the animation of Frankenstein’s creation not only reveals the inherent bias that Frankenstein holds against his creation but also illustrates how Frankenstein paradoxically dehumanizes what seems to resemble human life. Upon the creation’s awakening, Frankenstein immediately … Continue reading
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