robots! (not so much in disguise)
Apr. 7th, 2009 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
themeletorso, I am sort of mucking around in an android-fantasy-slash-cyberpunk-slash-something-else (slash bandom) AU, uh. and it's a little bit epically huge in my brain, surrounding politics and love and gender theory and queer theory and "human" nature and um. did I mention the robots? so anyway.
while I do not imagine this will ever exit my head in a fully cohesive, sculpted story (because that would be, like, novel-length and while loving my brain I also recognize that it has simply not been wired for that sort of extended attention span), I will hopefully be throwing down some chunks o' 'verse in the kinda-near future, and I would like those to be as accurate and well-considered as possible.
my [re]reading/[re]viewing list includes: Asimov, early 80's cyberpunk, The Cyborg Manifesto (which I think/reallyhope I still have in a binder somewhere?), and also some movies. to be fair I only started constructing said list last night. but the important part of this post is, hi flist! what would you add?
[ps - miscellany/ohai uncanny valley!: while nosing around I also hit these videos of the HRP-4C Gynoid (fashion fembot) and the ever-exciting (while also a bit unsettling) CB2 Child Robot. iiiifff you haven't seen these, they are pretty freaking mindblowing. check it.]
[pps - fuck you very much,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iceyrica.]
while I do not imagine this will ever exit my head in a fully cohesive, sculpted story (because that would be, like, novel-length and while loving my brain I also recognize that it has simply not been wired for that sort of extended attention span), I will hopefully be throwing down some chunks o' 'verse in the kinda-near future, and I would like those to be as accurate and well-considered as possible.
my [re]reading/[re]viewing list includes: Asimov, early 80's cyberpunk, The Cyborg Manifesto (which I think/reallyhope I still have in a binder somewhere?), and also some movies. to be fair I only started constructing said list last night. but the important part of this post is, hi flist! what would you add?
[ps - miscellany/ohai uncanny valley!: while nosing around I also hit these videos of the HRP-4C Gynoid (fashion fembot) and the ever-exciting (while also a bit unsettling) CB2 Child Robot. iiiifff you haven't seen these, they are pretty freaking mindblowing. check it.]
[pps - fuck you very much,
iceyrica.]
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Date: 2009-04-07 09:14 pm (UTC)2) By early 80's cyberbunk, you mean William Gibson, right?
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Date: 2009-04-08 03:37 am (UTC)2.) yep, and other stuff in that general vicinity. really I'm looking more for android/artificial intelligence/cyborg issues material -- the cyberpunk is more for mood & atmosphere, and rereading the Gibson cycle will be plenty of bite-off for me to chew there :p
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Date: 2009-04-08 04:36 am (UTC)... but then as soon as I finish it, I'm going to have to watch WALL-E -- because they look eerily reminiscent. or rather, WALL-E looks like No. 5, but. youknowwhatimean.
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