Word: cyborg
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...over a cappuccino after the movie. Nowadays, they’d probably just yawn endlessly like I do at the horror-junk Hollywood churns out. A hypothetical conversation after “Demon Seed” could be: Haraway: “She’s birthing a cyborg, dammit! Its artificiality is deconstructed to expose human volition.” Butler: “You’re such an essentializing cow. It’s the product of two distinct bodies, in this case only one: a corporeal body. The offspring, as its organic essence is generated through...
...scientist caught in an experiment gone wrong, Concrete has a secret past as Ronald Lithgow, a senatorial speechwriter. Captured by aliens while taking a remote mountain hike, he escaped, but only after having his brain transferred to a fantastical new body. Under the cover of being an experimental, government cyborg named Concrete, he lives as just another celebrity in L.A.'s freak show...
...medium—one of freedom, fascinating new directions, and incredible technological availability—or it could propel us towards a cultural apocalypse in which we all experience the world as pure cinema through transplanted computer chips. Naturally, the latter would be controlled by an evil cyborg named Rupert who feeds us propaganda from his control room in Beverly Hills. Take your pick...
...thousand Eurotrash monkeys at a thousand homosexual typewriters, told them to write a three-minute-long porno with cameos from a cyborg and Santa Claus, hired Jar-Jar Binks and his twin brothers as the leads, and signed on an obsessive-compulsive nine-year-old to direct the whole thing, you would be the most awe-inspiring filmmaker of all time. You would also have created the music video for “Dragostea Din Tei,” more widely known as “The Romanian Pop Song That My Floormate Plays At 4 a.m. Every Night?...
...days and ways. Viewers who resist the coming posthuman form of filmmaking may be as obsolete as the movies they loved. Get used to it, people: these new techniques will weave our deepest dreams into a cinematic coat of many colors. Thing is, it'll be worn by a cyborg...