The Search for Tradition: Avantgarde and Postmodernism in the 1970s

Huyssen, Andreas

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“…L'Eve also exhibits the "compatibility of technology and desire," themes which have been repeated in much science fiction since then, for example, in the films The Stepford Wives (Forbes, 1975), Alien (Scott, 1979), Aliens (Cameron, 1986), and Blade Runner (Scott, 1982). According to Huyssen (1986), in Fritz Lang's film, Metropolis (1927 the replication engenders fear rather than desire: "The fears and perpetual anxieties emanating from ever more powerful machines are recast and reconstructed in terms of the male fear of female sexuality" (p. 36). Huyssen also claims that the ultimate technological fantasy is creation without the mother.…”

Section: The Evolution Of Everyday Creativity 249 Now Some Incursions...mentioning

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Cyborgs, cyberspace, cybersexuality: The evolution of everyday creativity.

Abraham¹

2007

Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature: Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Perspectives.

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Improvisation is acceptance, in a single breath, of both transience and eternity.-S. NachmanovichEveryday creativity lives at the fractal interface of the individual and culture. Modern modes of communication, technology, and globalization are increasing the complexity of that interface and the pace of its evolution. It could prove important to evaluate the implications some trends and possibilities within that interface have for the evolution of human nature and everyday creativity.Advances in science and technology drive much of this evolution. Some of these advances are in computer systems (cyberspace); some are in the hybridization of the human body with robotics (cyborgs); and some are in communications, artificial intelligence, cloning, genetic manipulation, stem cell ontogenetic manipulation (which can now make it possible to eliminate the male from reproductive participation), pharmaceutical and molecular manipulation, nanotechnology, and so on. This evolution of society and self influences the programs of emancipation suggested by postmodern social theory and philosophical hermeneutics. Cybersexuality-a 241

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Section: The Evolution Of Everyday Creativity 249 Now Some Incursions...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyborgs, cyberspace, cybersexuality: The evolution of everyday creativity.

Abraham¹

2007

Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature: Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Perspectives.

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The Search for Tradition: Avantgarde and Postmodernism in the 1970s

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Cyborgs, cyberspace, cybersexuality: The evolution of everyday creativity.

Cyborgs, cyberspace, cybersexuality: The evolution of everyday creativity.

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