CSCT 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Plastic Surgery, The Sprawl, Mycotoxin

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

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Places get some sort of sense of what the things means/ have happened. Istanbul-> has the landmarks of the istanbul we know. Zion-> a colony with its own particular culture and history. Freeside-> very different from zion- consumer destination, luxury resort. The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead cannel (1). The cities are fictionalized, history has happened to them- it(cid:495)s the future, we. The bartender(cid:495)s smile widened. (is ugliness was the stuff of legend. )n japan, he(cid:495)d known with a clenched and absolute certainty, he(cid:495)d find his cure. China, a magnet for sprawl(cid:495)s techno- criminal subcultures. affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about the lack of it (2). They damaged his nervous system with a wartime russian mycotoxin (6). Case fell into the prison of his own flesh. Affordable beauty- alter your appearance to popular culture, accessible and cheap. Armitage- good looks are generic, less specific individual, more of a product.