In Karl Marx’s manifesto, under ‘The Fetishism of the Commodity and the Secret Thereof’ he uses the example of a piece of wood altered into a table, stating that “as soon as it steps forth as a commodity, it is changed into something transcendent” (Marx, 1867), ie the moment the wooden table is tagged with [...]
SBS: Love Me Love My Doll by BBC America
decided to take break from all the research and stuff and watched this on sbs…as per the title of this entry: Love Me Love My Doll … an eye opener/shocker i cant quite find the right word…
here are some bloggers who wrote about the “documentary”
http://dulcedosa.blogspot.com/2007/06/love-me-love-my-doll.html
http://adventuresparttwo.blogspot.com/2007/06/love-me-love-my-doll-bbc-america.html
http://www.hossli.com/articles/2004/01/01/real-dolls/ (contains graphic images)
an article from TIME mag based on these dolls…
be forewarned there is a [...]
Opening clips
thought these few clips of the opening of the series might be useful to think about in relation to with our social obessions…
opening of Nip Tuck, the first time i saw this series i my draw quite literally dropped, listen closely to the lyrics esp at the end:
series revolves around 2 friends who run a plastic [...]
Lars von Trier & BWO
Lars von Trier you’ve got to love his “comments” at the end of each epi in kingdom…hilarious)
Bkgrd info:
“Lars Trier was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was raised by nudist communist parents. Trier notes that he was brought up in an atheist family, and that although his stepfather was Jewish, he was not religious. His parents did [...]
Territorialization Deterritorialization Reterritorialization
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 [...]
Robot+Human=Humanoid
Continuing my search robots and humans and getting my head round the notion of robots possibly having feelings and emotions…the worry about that line being blurred with increasing progress…
(extracts from each article are in italics)
i think this was created in 1999
American society for the prevention for cruelty to robots
“How can we tell when a robot [...]
Natural City
Do we have like some alliance with SBS??
im only asking because i just finished watching Natural City
A korean movie (2003) with the following plot outline:
It is 2080 and the world has become a high-tech society. Genetic engineering and mechanical engineering has reached its peak. Cyborgs have become an integral part of human life. A unit [...]
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From Space and Culture :
Smart Elevators (machine-human?)
Bio Determined Lines of Desire (spaces)
(slightly different way of thinking of how we know the city)
*eg the person who picked Bauman up and took the 2 hr drive to the hotel VS the taxi drivers who took the slumps route
Sounds like a good book to read (“an array of haphazard, quasi-accidental and [...]
HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
In one of my earlier post, i uploaded a picture of Marvin from the movie HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, just thought i share scenes from the movie (since i was on about sci-fi)
(see opening to to 01:28 )
“things are not always what they seem”
“man had always assumed he was the most intelligent specied occupying the planet”
after [...]
Squished
Someone in the tute mention sliders too (she was a fan as well) hehe now i dont feel so “old”
anyway the presenter brought up Taiwanese movie Secret and HongKong drama serial A Step Back into the Past to illustrate Bauman. Pretty interesting stuff (her presentation and Bauman <when read indept> )
Now i wanted to [...]
