English 1028F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cyborg, Molly Millions
18 Oct 2016
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Information is no longer just data, it has become a raw resource, the means by which people become wealthy. Computers have become part of the human. Machines are not what we use but what we are. Nothing is felt, everything is observed in a cool, detached manner. The narrative perspective is third person restricted to case: everything is mediated through case"s damaged mind. They damaged his nervous system that he uses to jack into the cyber space. As a result, he is very self-destructive: the fall from grace. Lucifer, as the snake, he tempts eve with the fruit of the tree of. God expels adam and eve: for case, cyber space was the garden of eden. He was tempted and is now expelled (cid:498)the bodyless exultation(cid:499) to (cid:498)the prison of his own flesh(cid:499) Your body becomes an obstacle, a hassle, a distraction. Elizabeth in frankenstein is very passive, loving, moral. Molly is violent, tough, she"s the muscle.
