ARHS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Walmart, Retinal Scan, Ridley Scott
6 Dec 2016
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In 1991, postmodern thinker, jean baudrillard questioned the reality of the gulf war. We prefer the exile of the virtual of which television is the universal mirror the catastrophe of the real. (excerpted from three articles in the parisian newspaper liberation) Postmodernism"s legacy will be not to trust what can be seen, Today we can restore vision by: growing replacement retinas in test tubes, transplant operations, placing a computer chip on the retina to stimulate partially deteriorated cells. Science fiction"s speculative nature makes the genre a helpful tool in looking at difficult concepts. Science fiction"s tendency to discuss our own time in allegorical fashion also means that the genre often tries to make sense of elements in our age the postmodern period . Science fiction is a tool that permits the exploration of technological, scientific and perceptual transformations. One who is immersed in hacker culture and who uses technology for their own personal means.
