Becoming
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[edit] Becoming (Part 1) - The Organic
[edit] Becoming (Part 2) - The Cybernetic
[edit] Films and Visual Source Material
A.I: Artificial Intelligence. (2001) Steven Spielberg (Director).
Battlestar Galactica. (2003) Ronald E. Moore (Producer).
Dekalog. (1989) Krzystof Kieslowski (Director).
French and Saunders. (1993) Bob Spiers (Director).
Memento. (2000) Christopher Nolan (Director).
The Prisoner. (1967) George Markstein & Patrick McGoohan (Creators).
Robocop. (1987) Paul Verhoeven (Director).
Visions of the Future. (2007) BBC Channel 4 Documentary.
[edit] Audio Samples
“Come into Our Room” from Walking with Thee (2002), Clinic.
“Paranoid Android” from O.K. Computer (1997), Radiohead.
“The Robots” from The Man-Machine (1978), Kraftwerk.
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In fact, one of the most important events in Deleuze's thought was the advent of modern cinema, where images were freed from the human eye and from organizing perspective and narrative. It is cinema's power to 'see' in an inhuman and multiple way that gives us, he argued, a whole new way of thinking.
Why Deleuze?, Colebrook.
They celebrate the 'schizo' against the paranoid 'man'. Their 'schizo' is not a psychological type (not a schizophrenic), but a way of thinking a life not governed by any fixed norm or image of self - a self in flux and becoming, rather than a self that has submitted to law.
Why Deleuze?, Colebrook.
The human brain does not work in the same way as a computer, where memories can be pulled out at random. Memory is a process of constant recollection and reconstruction.
Prosthetic Memory, Susan Tkachuk
Roomba© is an interesting study because it incorporates numerous connections in the actor-network theory. Consumption, discovery, robotics, motion type, and engineering are all relationships that are forged through this one simple product.
Actor Network Theory, Kris Brockelbank
It is interesting to see this body-centric humanism being reinforced in other, perhaps more 'unlikely,' cultural texts as well, possibly one of the most surprising examples being the children's tale of Pinocchio, the wooden puppet that sought to become a 'real boy' someday.
Re-humanizing the Posthuman, Armando Alfaro
The fear around the cyborg figure is also highly apparent, possibly because the human fear of their own imperfection becomes apparent. The fear of invasion is perhaps one that drives humanity to be both enthralled by the cyborg figure and reject it in the same moment.
Cyborg, Stephanie Morgan
To equate a drive for transcendence with an abandonment of physical worlds is to extrapolate a particular religious symbolic system specific to Western modernity into a universal human essence.
The Post/Human Condition: Economies of Gods and Monsters, Geraldine Jones
However, Battlestar Galactica should not be regarded as an overarching Christian parable, in spite of its references to Christianity, for it has no ulterior motive to mobilise the Christian right with its space-operatic subtexts.
Deus Ex Machina or Machina Ex Deus?, Darren Crouse
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