Comments on: “It All Looks the Same.” http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/it-all-looks-the-same/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-all-looks-the-same English 738T, Spring 2015 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 04:10:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kristen Gray http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/it-all-looks-the-same/#comment-164 Kristen Gray Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:49:43 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/?p=104#comment-164 An interesting subject you address here is the issue of slavery. A lot of the "myth" that goes along with robots and clones has to do with creation for the purpose of slavery. This, of course, is addressed in Blade Runner where the nexis six are slaves who escape from their oppression. This type of slavery is the worst kind--chattel, colonial slavery. It seems that the "future" mirrors the past in which man must constantly oppress another for the benefit of his own existance. An interesting subject you address here is the issue of slavery. A lot of the “myth” that goes along with robots and clones has to do with creation for the purpose of slavery. This, of course, is addressed in Blade Runner where the nexis six are slaves who escape from their oppression. This type of slavery is the worst kind–chattel, colonial slavery. It seems that the “future” mirrors the past in which man must constantly oppress another for the benefit of his own existance.

]]> By: Philip Stewart http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/it-all-looks-the-same/#comment-24 Philip Stewart Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:19:36 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/?p=104#comment-24 I think this is a good line to press on with, given the tensions of our times & the constant press from the other direction, the manufacture of out-groups, dovetailing into the manufacture fully dehumanized--the method of manufacture being words as much as deeds, totemic and performative. There used to be <I>Star Trek</I> episodes where humanity was discovered in unexpected places. Those traits of empathy though seem to me to be so mammalian and pre-human in their origins (as are competition, predation,etc.). The evolutionary overlay of the human upon what we used to be, primordially, has had me wondering... in its capacity to marshal those primal strands of empathy, or suppress them--or differentially distribute them. Looking forward to the evolutions of the coming week! I think this is a good line to press on with, given the tensions of our times & the constant press from the other direction, the manufacture of out-groups, dovetailing into the manufacture fully dehumanized–the method of manufacture being words as much as deeds, totemic and performative.

There used to be Star Trek episodes where humanity was discovered in unexpected places. Those traits of empathy though seem to me to be so mammalian and pre-human in their origins (as are competition, predation,etc.). The evolutionary overlay of the human upon what we used to be, primordially, has had me wondering… in its capacity to marshal those primal strands of empathy, or suppress them–or differentially distribute them.

Looking forward to the evolutions of the coming week!

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