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i'm cooking the veggies and valuing myself! ([personal profile] themeletor) wrote2009-04-07 03:39 pm

robots! (not so much in disguise)

so, 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] iceyrica.]

[identity profile] shrieking-ell.livejournal.com 2009-04-07 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
1) I've missed seeing this particular tag from you :-)

2) By early 80's cyberbunk, you mean William Gibson, right?

[identity profile] meletor-et-al.livejournal.com 2009-04-08 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
1.) I've missed it, too!

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

[identity profile] gryphons-lair.livejournal.com 2009-04-08 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Short Circuit?

[identity profile] meletor-et-al.livejournal.com 2009-04-08 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
that's the movie with the robot that escapes the lab, right?

[identity profile] gryphons-lair.livejournal.com 2009-04-08 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Right! And he teams up with an animal-rights advocate.

[identity profile] meletor-et-al.livejournal.com 2009-04-08 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
oh, heart. I hadn't thought of that one, but it is TOTALLY going on my rewatch list, if just to make me happy *g*

... 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.

[identity profile] meletor-et-al.livejournal.com 2009-04-08 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
it's on the list -- also because I really want to see it again!

[identity profile] iceyrica.livejournal.com 2009-04-08 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Do not blame me! it was all your idea!

[identity profile] iceyrica.livejournal.com 2009-04-08 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Because I am the best kind of friend! The loving and encouraging kind!

[identity profile] meletor-et-al.livejournal.com 2009-04-08 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
whatever, I WATCHED AI LAST NIGHT. IT WAS TERRIBLE. AND JUST FOR THIS STUPID AU. D:

[identity profile] iceyrica.livejournal.com 2009-04-08 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
You were supposed to research, not torture yourself!
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[personal profile] sansets 2009-04-08 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
\Haraway/ If it doesn't turn out that you have your copy hanging around, let me know and I can scan mine for you. BECAUSE I AM KIND OF REALLY IN LOVE WITH THE CYBORG MANIFESTO, OMG. ♥

[identity profile] meletor-et-al.livejournal.com 2009-04-08 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Harawaaaaaaaaay! I haven't been able to find it YET, but I still have a couple more binders o'shit from the ex-dorm to search. I am glad to have you as back-up! THE CYBORG MANIFESTO MAKES ME SUPER HAPPY (AND THINKY). ♥