CSCT 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: The Girl Who Was Plugged In, Speculative Fiction, Unconscious Mind

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 3D03
• Professor: Philip Savage

Document Summary

3 decades of imagining the cyber world that we now have in 2017. Gibson-> genres/ sub- genres much more familiar because we have some of the technology now. Kraken-> broader emerging in sf- science in sf with paranormal- always been a possibility and horror has always been a factor of sf. Visible in tv series like fringe-> opening up meanings of sf to be speculative fiction. From a wide rage of cultural centres- from eco discussions, different cultural centres)(ex. Imagines the technology that is now pretty much everywhere. We don"t get to have simstim but we are approaching hyper real with surround, 3d technological special effects. Story suggest brilliant new ways of living- inspirational new kinds of. Points to the inevitable danger linked with technology economies and life. When they go to the gryphon rampant-> they eat at a restaurant in an alleyway that is in the game. The technology can make real geographical places not real.