ENGL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Larissa Lai, Culture Of Asia, Consumerism
17 May 2017
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Takes the misuse of computer technology, the capitolistscience put in a category of otherness. Based on 1960s novel, set in la in 2019. The landscape is always dark except for commercial lighting. Commercialism and orientalism: the idea that the west has constructed the. Billboard of asian woman in traditional clothing eating a fruit: communicates the idea ofa ruined west. Pg 30: miranda watches her father go into the unregulated zone. Serendipity (community miranda lives in) has expelled the notion of cultural othernessin the zone: miranda is chinese but grows up with white context. Inside the shop the food is seen as weird because it isn"t the gmod food of. The creatures are seen as humanized when they have an interiority/memory. The replicants that are born with memories that aren"t theirs. How does the billboard work in salt fish girl: Miranda"s mother is the woman on the billboard.
