CSCT 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Jupiter Ascending, Sensorium, Body Modification

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

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High tech-> movie examples: i robot and jupiter ascending, There"s always a way to become one with the technology. Ex) usb drives in heads, hard drives in heads. Makes it seem realistic because we know the objects or we have thought, (cid:498)hey, it"d be a great idea if (cid:499) * movable sensorium-> the person being translated into technology. Ex) shark in a shell (anime movie) 1995. A girl had her body smashed to shit when she was assassinating someone-> her body is repaired and she now has a doppelganger. There are a vast number of reflective surfaces. We are uncertain as to what we are seeing. There are a lot of surfaces including screens. Goal of cyberpunk and sf as a genre: Improving the interface-> looking at how we should look at screens unconsciously. Neuromancer (first book in a trilogy) -> william gibson. We don"t look for things that don"t belong on the screen.