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- Title: Terminal Constructedness and the Technology of the Self in Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky (Movie Review)
- Author : Extrapolation
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 228 KB
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The Technological/Self Arthur Kroker and David Cook have said that the postmodern body is "a power grid, tattooed with all the signs of cultural excess on its surface, encoded from within by the language of desire" (Postmodern 26). A product of late capitalism, this language of desire's foremost task is to uphold and perpetuate a community of consumers whose cyborg bodies bear the brightly colored marks of the media. These marks warn us not to be less than avid (if not rabid) consumers lest we fall short of being adequate, functional social subjects. The postmodern body, in other words, is a desiring-machine whose contours are defined by the technetronic mediascape of late capitalism, which equates adequacy with excess. This dynamic has been most effectively represented and mapped out by the science fiction genre, as Scott Bukatman indicates in Terminal Identity: "It has fallen to science fiction to repeatedly narrate a new subject that can somehow directly interface with--and master--the cybernetic technologies of the Information Age, an era in which, as Jean Baudrillard observed, the subject has become a 'terminal of multiple networks'" (2). By means of technology, the real world has seen the actualization of what sf narratives of old only imagined. The result is the terminal or blip subject, a conflation of the human and the technological distinguished by a new, oppositional subjectivity that is as transcendental as it is submissive.