CSCT 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Enemy Alien, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Raygun

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 3D03
• Professor: Philip Savage

Document Summary

We take historical phenomena (ex. advance in human technology/ scientific progress) If we look at ourselves we have prosthetic limbs, computer chips, etc. we are already halfway there to being cyborgs. Our artificial intelligence is evolving-> ex) space odyssey. People who have disabilities were considered aliens too. * post- humanism-> the universe is far too large for us to be on the top. * humanism-> we are on the top of the scale and everything is below us. Sf tries to stir it up with the notion of the alien. Ex) how the mama is hungry and protects her babies. Little green men or chiselled white space man with a ray gun. An image of masculinity mixed with space fantasy. Were terrifying-> the producer looked at the smallest things and played on that. It plays on our fears of our unknowns by never completely showing it.