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Sublime |
Of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.
Overwhelming sensation that makes us aware of our own weakness/smallness |
Frankenstein -thunder -power of daemon
Drowned World -Lagoon -Sun
Call/Whisper -Gods -grandeur of the universe
Crystal Egg -Mars/Grandeur of the universe |
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Utopia |
an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The word was first used in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More.
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Distopia |
an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. |
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Uncanny |
Strange or mysterious familiarity, especially in an unsettling way. |
Drowned World -Triassic Period -Seclusion for transformation -Dreams
Call of Cthulu -Primordial -Gods -Cults and chanting
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Collective unconscious |
The part of the unconscious mind that is derived from ancestral memory and experience and is common to all humankind These patterns are inherited, may be arranged into archetypes, and are observable through their effects on dreams, behaviour, etc |
Drowned World -Triassic Period -Seclusion for transformation -Dreams
Call of Cthulu -Primordial -Gods -Cults and chanting
Death Drive (Freud) Thriving for knowledge gives and uneasy feeling |
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Archetypes |
An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype
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Strangman -archetype for civilization
Scientist in new acc Archetype for Greed |
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Carl Jung |
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung believed that archetypes are models of people, behaviors or personalities. Jung suggested that the psyche was composed of three components: the ego, the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. According to Jung, the ego represents the conscious mind while the personal unconscious contains memories, including those that have been suppressed. The collective unconscious is a unique component in that Jung believed that this part of the psyche served as a form of psychological inheritance. It contains all of the knowledge and experiences we share as a species. |
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Epistomology |
The study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
New Accelerator -could improve performance -could kill you -ethics?
Frankenstein -create new life -Can turn evil -can you own life? |
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Knowledge |
Facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. |
Obsession All
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Versimilitude |
The appearance of being true or real. Mimics reality but extends it into the future |
New Accelerator -close to concentration pill
Drowned World -Global Warming
Whispers in the Darkness -Finding other form of life
Crystal Egg -Skype-like -life on other planets (esp. Mars)
Frankenstein -Biology -Stem cell research -Blood transfusion -Organ transplant |
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Faust/Faustian |
Of, relating to, resembling, or suggesting Faust; especially: made or done for present gain without regard for future cost or consequences
Legendary German necromancer or astrologer who sold his soul to the devil for knowledge and power. |
New accelerator -says he doesn't care about the consequences
Frankenstein -creates a monster for pride but didnt think about what he would do with it
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Mechanism |
There is no such thing as life per say Life would be a side effect/emergence of a certain kind of combination
a secondary effect or byproduct that arises from but does not causally influence a process, in particular. = epiphenomenon
William Lawrence |
Frankenstein -live created out of dead parts |
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Vitalism |
John Abernethy A spiritual substance (Soul)
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Call of Cthulu Gods have life through weird rituals and star alignment
Vaster than Empires -the fear
Solaris -planet breathes |
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Freud |
Desires Death Drive Unconscious force to return to stasis (self-destruction) |
Knowledge All
Death Drive All
Inferiority complex (nxt to the Sublime) compensates with Knowledge Death gives their life meaning |
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Galvani |
Italian physiologist: observed that muscles contracted on contact with dissimilar metals. This led to the galvaniccell and the electrical theory of muscle control by nerves |
Frankenstein Talks a lot about electricity and thunder |
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Personal Unconscious |
In jungian psychology, the more superficial layer of the unconscious in which complexes reside. |
Inferiority complex (nxt to the Sublime) compensates with Knowledge Death gives their life meaning |
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Satire |
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, |
Drowned World -Strangman ridicule of civilization white man surviving in jungle $ = garbage architecture is horrifying
Whispers -Never wanting to leave home
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Modernity |
Of or relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past. |
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Science Fiction |
Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets. |
Technology is an extension of the human |
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Speculative |
extrapolation from current factual information into future scientific principle It is imaginative |
Drowned World -Global warming -ice caps melting
Frankenstein -Limitation of ethics -cloning -transplants |
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Pulps |
Sci-fi stories written on cheap paper to make magazines written quickly for a mass |
-H.G. Wells
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Parallel/Counterfactual Worlds |
Counterfactual relating to or expressing what has not happened or is not the case.
Parallel having the same direction, course, nature, or tendency; corresponding;similar; analogous |
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Facilitating Device |
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Enlightenment |
a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. |
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Romanticism |
a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions, and marked especially in English literature by sensibility and the use of autobiographical material, an exaltation of the primitive and the common man, an appreciation of external nature, an interest in the remote, a predilection for melancholy, and the use in poetry of older verse forms |
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State of Nature |
The state of nature is a concept in moral and political philosophy used in religion, social contract theories and international law to denote the hypothetical conditions of what the lives of people might have been like before societies came into existence. |
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New Wave of Sci-Fi |
The New Wave is a movement in science fiction produced in the 1960s and 1970s and characterized by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, a "literary" or artistic sensibility, and a focus on "soft" as opposed to hard science.New Wave writers often saw themselves as part of the modernist tradition and sometimes mocked the traditions of pulp science fiction, which some of them regarded as stodgy, adolescent and poorly written
The most prominent source of New Wave science fiction was the magazine New Worlds under the editorship of Michael Moorcock, who assumed the position in 1964
emergence of a greater variety of voices in science fiction, most notably the rise in the number of female writers |
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Structuralism |
Any way that reality is given a structure It defines us in many ways
one does not exist without symbolic apparatus
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Babel-17 -langage is a technology
-man and woman's bathroom
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Symbolic/Imaginary/Real |
Jacques Lacan Symbolic -media -technology
Real -material
imaginary deluded sense of self-image (I am a person who is not defined by language) |
Videodrome
Alien Symbolic = human ship Real= Alien ship |
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Cognitive Mapping |
Strategy that projects reality into future, so that we may see abstract things in concrete ways
-capitalism -langage |
-Babel-17
Alien represent the distinction between human and alien space ship |
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Utopia as mode of thought |
Utopia as a imaginitive broad social order that seems oppressive or oppressive so then Love Chance to do things over become the real utopia The way of thinking becomes liberating Not political Personal Individualized does not lead to the creation of a new state |
Solaris
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De-naturalization |
Attempt to claim things that we think natural
seperation-out of nature and culture |
BloodChild -male pregnancy -denaturalization of pregnancy |
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Afrofuturism |
Strain in sci-fi that uses speculative thinking to see that gender, class, race are projected forward into the future-doing cognitive mapping |
Bloodchild |
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Medium is the Message |
"The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived.
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964
"a light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence."
Likewise, the message of a newscast about a heinous crime may be less about the individual news story itself — the content — and more about the change in public attitude towards crime that the newscast engenders by the fact that such crimes are in effect being brought into the home to watch over dinner. |
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Critique of Knowledge |
Domain of the symbolic |
Call of Cthulu -knowing too much leads to a danger state
New Accelerator
Videodrome
Frankenstein
Alien -knowing too much leads to a danger state
Babel-17 langage can be used as technology. |
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Industrial Revolution |
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency ofwater power, the increasing use of steam power, and the development of machine tools. It also included the change from wood and other bio-fuels tocoal. |
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Cinema and Modernity |
The modern impulse gave us captivating technology and dark anxiety, rampant mobility and a world filled with strangers, the futuristic city and a fragmentation of experience. Motion pictures––the quintessence of modernism––entered into this cultural, technical, and philosophical richness with a vast public appeal and a jarring new vision of what life could be. |
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Decline of the West |
The Decline of the West (, is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler, the first volume of which was published in the summer of 1918. |
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Environments: Natural vs Built |
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Consciousness: Memory, Trauma, History |
the condition of being conscious : the normal state of being awake and able to understand what is happening around you : a person's mind and thoughts |
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Ecology: Individual & Collectivity |
the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. |
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Gender and Embodiment |
Gendering of biological assets Biological differences between man and woman |
BloodChild -male pregnancy -denaturalization of pregnancy
Alien
Babel-17
Black-Hole
Frankenstein -monster created without without a sexe. |
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McLuhan's Media Theory |
McLuhan's most widely known work, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964), is a pioneering study in media theory. Dismayed by the way people approached and used new media such as television, McLuhan famously argued that in the modern world "we live mythically and integrally ... but continue to think in the old, fragmented space and time patterns of the pre-electric age."[53] McLuhan proposed that media themselves, not the content they carry, should be the focus of study—popularly quoted as "the medium is the message". McLuhan's insight was that a medium affects the society in which it plays a role not by the content delivered over the medium, but by the characteristics of the medium itself.
Cool media, on the other hand, are usually, but not always, those that provide little involvement with substantial stimulus. They require more active participation on the part of the user, including the perception of abstract patterning and simultaneous comprehension of all parts. Therefore, according to McLuhan cool media include television, as well as the seminar and cartoons. McLuhan describes the term "cool media" as emerging from jazz and popular music and, in this context, is used to mean "detached." |
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Consciousness |
not just rooted in individual |
Le Guin de-naturalizing
Ballard -collective unconscious
Frankenstein -consciousness is developped -shaped by society
La jetée -memory
Solaris -past is not really past -trauma
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Octavia Buttler |
Bloodchild |
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Charles Burn |
Black Hole |
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David Cronenberg |
Videodrome |
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Andrei Tarkovsky |
Solaris |
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Chris Marker |
La Jetée |
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Samuel Delany |
Babel-17 |
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Ridley Scott |
Alien |
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H.G. Wells |
The Crystal Egg The New Accelerator
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Mary Shelley |
Frankenstein |
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Lovecraft |
Call of Cthulu The Whisperer in Darkness |
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Ballard |
The Drowned World |
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Ursula Le Gouin |
Vaster than Empires |
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