touching a bit on farscape in point form:
-(the intial episodes as we watched) are more focused on bodies/relationships but as mention in tute, farscape does eventually have those big battle scenes and stuff in later seasons and towards the end
-there is the obvious gender sterotype esp this clip that was show in class today by the presenter
-interesting to think about how television series are filmed in other countries and then packed and sent to hollywood and for international viewership in relation to territorialzation etc
With regard to this question posted in lec and on screen machine:
Why do TV aliens so often wear their veins / brain matter / organs etc on the outside?
-for televisual affect
-because of our innate need to ALWAYS have a form of classification, some way of identifying
-because humans/viewers judge others by appearances
-perhaps a bigger/underlying notion of as we watch the series, we overlook how the charcters outer apperances and identify with their mind/behaviour/emotions and IF we could JUST do that in real life… there would not be racism/religious in tolerance etc etc
Why do some of the aliens in Farscape look human?
-because of things like machines
-because of hybridity
-because it signifies disinformation?
-because the scriptwriter planned to confuse/shock viewers?
i wonder if at times scriptwriters have a certain aim but end up with something even greater then they originally plan esp with sci fi where they can just explore…not nec stick to some moralistic ending…they can create pretty much another world, allegorical or whatever…-muse-
Righty-o…(tries to rid mind of notions of machine and humans for a moment) i shall ramble on what i like to think of as shells *our body and space *our environment…
We all have our pre concieved notions of territorialization (esp when thinking of history, like the colonialization period etc) however this notion of absolute deterritorialization (Deleuze&Guattari) that is inseparable from vectors (which are signs? languages??) is just so so so vast…i feel that there is no possible way to have absloute deterritorialization…or not yet anyway…
somehow this para (to me) seems to summarize the notion of te/dete/rete/rritorialization is:
(know how some stuff just “speaks” to you?)
“The essence of a life form is not simply the environment that supports life, nor simply a form which, given proper environment, will live. The essence of a living system is in the coupling of form with environment. The environment is that context, and the form is the content. If we consider them together, we consider the nature of life.” (in Jussi Parikka’s article it was talking about the centre of viral theory but i read it in context to the first…)
i cant quite explain and in proper wording but i will try my best to be coherent if that is even…logicially possible…right…here goes:
territorialization (form) - the environment that supports life – our body our home our country – mother earth if you may
deterritorialization (system/environment) - even if we have our heart replaced with a pig’s heart or fitted with a pace maker – even if we are in a different country – dressed in different clothes – even if we exchange bodies – we are still who we are no? just in a foreign shell/space
reterritorialization (nature of life) - almost like evolution and the result of hybridity – mutation even
following my train of thought? haha
i guess what i am interested in with the whole sci fi thing going on goes back to the age old question of what is life? why am i here? which leads to many other various OTHER questions…what makes us?who are we? why do we have such anxieties and fear? what makes humans’ tick? why do we have wars? is the idea of peace that inconcievable? (on and on and on…)
in the second article computer viruses are said to be machines in the deleuzo-guattarian sense of the word in that they are connection makers reaching out and beyond their seeming borders in order to find functional couplings. (The essence of a living system is in the coupling of form with environment.) what are the borders out there? who defines the borders?
im incline to think that because we cannot see these computer viruses or the ones that attack our bodies that make us sick, (linked back to one of my previous entry on how in this day and age we can cope with not knowing how to say defend/prevent) that gives rise to our overactive imagination and curiousity that drives us to seek…
from deleuze and guattari a very interesting diagrammatic
““The diagrammatic or abstract machine does not function to represent, even something real, but rather constructs a real that is yet to come, a new type of reality.” (A Thousand Plateaus 142)”
this is what happens when you put 2 great minds together!
somehow the more stuff we watch on sci fi, thinking of machines, bodies etc i somehow think of astrology, psychics, out of body experiences, soul swapping, near death experiences (sometimes brushed off as fluff by some people…)
i guess my preoccupation/long list of questions with the idea of absolute deterritorialization has to do with my unanswered questions to do with death (since i was…12…)
what happens after we die? are our bodies merely shells? what happens to our supposed “souls”?
(sure there are religious/philosophical/scientific etc etc answers but…mmm)
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