robots! (not so much in disguise)

[themeletor]

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, iceyrica.]

Comments

[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

Short Circuit?

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

that's the movie with the robot that escapes the lab, right?

[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

Right! And he teams up with an animal-rights advocate.

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

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.