Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'cyborgs'
Notes About Networks
This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. Where Do Cyborgs Come From? The term cyborg is as evocative and cuts as elusive a figure now...
In the Future Everyone Will Have Their 12 Seconds of Fame
Prelim Watching a video debate about whether President Obama should shame unprincipled detractors by identifying them, I came across a video that asks “Is Lady Gaga Sexy Or Just Crazy?” The moment I saw this picture Lady GaGa in...
Transformers 2, or How to Piss Off Even Midnight Moviegoers
I don’t walk out on films as a matter of principle, but this film took awful to levels I’d never seen before. a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves...
Please tell me this isn't true
I am praying some of the information in a New York Times article regarding pacemakers (implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, or ICDs) is in error, is fabricated, is untrue, is a lie or a dream. How can it be thatdevice makers have begun...
Strata-fication
Almost everyone has experienced a sense of increased power after acquiring a piece of new technology or learning a new skill. The acquisition of new capabilities through learning or artifacts are ways in which people (organisms) may extend the ranges...
Patchwork Copyright
I am surprised by your unqualified use of the term “intelligent machines.” To apply the descriptor “intelligent” to machines assumes that intelligence can be measured across types (e.g. humans and computers) with no relationship to the specific embodiment of the...
Stupid Me
Before getting yesterday carried away by a gushy, embarrassing tide of love for my former and future loves, I started with the observation thatEarlier this week I made a push to begin (I always begin at the beginning) my first...
Recombinant Media, Chapter 3
Writer Dwayne McDuffie, whose work is the primary subject of the third chapter of Recombinant Media, has expressed curiosity about what I've written. So, here is that third chapter and its notes for handy reference (the notes are included...
Prototype for a Black Cyborg Subject: A Tinderbox HTML Export Demonstration
In the middle of posting this entry, I found out that one of the writers of Marvel’s 1991 Deathlok series, Dwayne McDuffie, was considering purchasing my dissertation. I don’t even know what my royalty rate is. To be honest,...
“Fresh as harvest day.”0
While notable for its pioneering visual effects, Michael Anderson's 1976 Logan’s Run has been relatively neglected as a result of its defiantly clumsy scriptwriting and remarkably bad plotting. After the film’s release, several attempts were made to build a...
Cybernetic Smithy
It’s always a pleasure to read James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . On Monday, in my survey of Twentieth-century English Literature , we finished our discussion of Portrait , examining closely the end passage where...
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