English 2017 Study Guide - Final Guide: Captain America, Female Vampire, Whiz Comics
21 Apr 2013
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***** missing week 20 science fiction ii (use printed slides) *rossum"s universal robots introduced the word robot into the language (1920) The machine as an image of pleasure and horror: pleasure: freedom from labour, hardship, suffering, horror: Ex: r2d2 and c3p0: androids from the star wars film series. Seven of nine: a borg from the star trek: voyager tv series. Freud: the uncanny the class of frightening things that leads us back to what is known and familiar . Both familiar and alien: ex: dreams, something that seems right and familiar and something terrible, combination of the recognition of something similar. The fear of the thing with no consciousness (e. g. , jason vorhees, michael meyers) A fear experienced by modernity modernity is constituted by its machines (marshall berman, quoted by jancovich, p. 6) Can machines think? (mathematician alan turing, 1950: the turing test , blade runner: deckard tests rachael.
