Recent reading has made me think more about the seriation between the medium and the message — i.e., the cybernetic matrix of ideas about the physical and metaphysical that merge and precipitate new and unexpected ideas.
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Dissertation Abstract
The posthuman, though the mutilating, traumatizing, and infectious nature of our current technology, has begun to assert its figuration in contemporary cultural texts, like literature, cinema, and music. I argue that as technology catches up with our vision, it will necessarily a/effect the evolution of the human body.
The X-Files Effect: The Case of José Chung
What I call the “X-Files Effect,” then, is similar to the notion that Luckhurst examines in his article: the science-fictionalization of trauma; i.e., it is a person’s attempt to explain postmodern trauma through recourse to “genre stories”: abduction scenarios, new ageism, conspiracy theories, and the technological sublime.
The Automation of the Robot
Jean Baudrilliard A whole world separates these two artificial beings. One is a theatrical counterfeit, a mechanical and clocklike man; technique submits entirely to analogy and to the effect of semblance. The other is dominated by the technical principle; the machine overrides all, and with the machine equivalence comes too. The automaton plays the part [...]
