Analysis of the "A Cyborg Manifesto" in Ghost in the Shell In most of the science movies, women are likely dressing tights. When I was watching "Ghost in the Shell”, there is a classic lens that Major Motoko Kusanagi who wearing a camouflage suit fights criminal in the water, looking like almost nudity. Unlike other [...]
1984 by George Orwell is an incredibly depressing, alternative future that would follow the events of World War II. It is a depressing alternative whereby revolution is betrayed by totalitarian defenders and citizens are not only controlled by physical, brute force, but by emotion and via their own minds as well – the psychology of [...]
Madison Blecki Professor Keramidas Science Fiction: HTPF 9 March 2020 A. Sorry to Bother You is a 2018, science fiction movie that highlights the story of Oakland resident Cassius “Cash” Green. The movie takes place in an alternate version of Oakland, where the most popular game show on T.V. is called I Got the Shit Kicked [...]
a. description of the original text and its socio-cultural and historical contexts Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” offers an eerie portrayal of life: detailing the last day alive of a mechanized house. Programmed according to its specific schedule, the house runs through its day cooking and cleaning for its owners. Yet, the [...]
PROPOSAL “Story of Your Life” is a novella by Ted Chiang that is framed as the story that narrator and protagonist Dr. Louise Banks tells her unborn daughter on the night of her daughter’s conception. Through a non-sequential series of memories spanning from the day aliens arrive on Earth to the day Louise’s daughter dies [...]
1.Introduction of Paprika; Paprika is a 2006 Japanese Science Fiction anime film co-written and directed by Satoshi Kon, which adapted from the novel with the same name. It talks about a story a new psychotherapy treatment called dream therapy. It is achieved by a device called “DC mini” which allows therapists to cure patients by entering their [...]
a. description of the original text and its socio-cultural and historic contexts: For my final project, I am drawing inspiration from an episode of the American science fiction television series The X-Files – “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose,” which aired in October of 1995. This episode follows the assistance of a grumpy, old man, Clyde Bruckman, [...]
Nicholas Silcox Professor Kimon Kermidas Science Fiction: Humanity, Technology, the Present, the Future 03/10/2020 Final Project Proposal: Entering Area X On the opening page of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence, Timothy Morton asks the question that looms large over the Anthropocene and the experience of climate change — “[W]hat is happening?” (Morton [...]
By giving conversation with the puppet master in shell, to reach the ghost of our own. 1. description of the original text and its socio-cultural and historical contexts： When it comes to "Ghost in the Shell", there are two ideas emerge: one is an image that Major Motoko Kusanagi faces away from us in a [...]
Westworld: Escape the Maze description of the original text and its socio-cultural and historical contexts; Westworld[1] is an American Science Fiction Western television series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. It is based on the 1973 film of the same name, and its sequel Futureworld. The first season was released in 2016, the second [...]
