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    In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?‚ the spaces between the real and the artificial‚ in this case colonizing humans and the colonized non-humans (also known as androids)‚ are negotiated through the planetary colonization program‚ the program which sent humans to space and created androids. The real‚ the humans‚ are viewed by the fake‚ the androids‚ as aggressors‚ while the humans view the androids as their personal slaves. As such‚ there is a clear distinction between the real and the fake within

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    London. Haraway‚ D.‚ 1991. ‘A Cyborg Manifesto: Science‚ Technology‚ and Socialist- Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century’‚ pp. 149-81in Simians‚ Cyborgs‚ and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routelage. Hayles‚ K.‚ 1999. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics‚ Literature‚ and Informatics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Stone‚ A.R.‚ 1995. The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. The MIT Press: Cambridge‚ MA and London‚ England. Sofoulis

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    Darwinism‚ and feminine versus masculine? This is my motive because I find it intriguing that there is no distinct line between humans and posthumans‚ and I hope to stress the importance of the gray area between the two by looking at the farm and Maddie in the story. My tentative thesis (which is still highly open to revision) is: By looking at the spectrum of posthuman characters in “Rogue Farm” through Bollinger’s idea of cooperation versus competition‚ we can see that dualities may fail to adequately

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    It is a terrible yet bittersweet coincidence that I am writing a response to Timothy Morton’s “Queer Ecology” as my friends and family in the Philippines are being besieged by yet another tropical cyclone. Terrible because I feel guilty sitting cozily in front of my screen while halfway around the world hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who live in areas at risk of flash floods‚ landslides and storm surges are struggling to be evacuated as Ruby (the misleadingly sweet name the cyclone has been baptized

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    and the movie Gattaca are both dystopian media. In tough times both the rich and poor come together to fight through what the government set out to say wouldn’t happen‚ in both medias. In both dystopian medias Hunger Games and Gattaca want a perfect world. They are both similar; both types of governments want to disclude the non-perfect race. People from Panam and Gattaca are nice‚ for example Cinna in Hunger Games and The Doctor in Gattaca; therefore‚ The Hunger Games and Gattaca are similar dystopian

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    [Accessed: 31 Mar 2013]. Plant‚ S. (2001) fUSION Anomaly. Sadie Plant. [online] Available at: http://fusionanomaly.net/sadieplant.html [Accessed: 1 Apr 2013]. Thacker‚ E. (2003) Project MUSE - Data Made Flesh: Biotechnology and the Discourse of the Posthuman. [online] Available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cul/summary/v053/53.1thacker.html [Accessed: 1 Apr 2013]. The Economist (2012) Counting every moment. [online] Available at: http://www.economist.com/node/21548493 [Accessed: 30 Mar 2013]. Wolfe

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    The Gattaca Text response: Is Vincent the hero in ‘’Gattaca’’? A typical hero is someone who is able to be admired or idealize courage‚ outstanding achievements or noble qualities. Andrew Niccol’s film text ‘’Gattaca’’ displays Vincent Anton Freeman as a character with innumerable heroic acts and qualities but the fact that he lacks some heroic qualities brings him short of being the hero in ‘’Gattaca’’. The film furthermore portrays the fact that there is no real hero in Gattaca‚ just like

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    importance of genetic makeup in the world of Gattaca. In the world of Gattaca everyday life is based upon ‘perfection.’ Your career‚ social status and living conditions are all affected by genetic makeup and whether or not you were genetically altered before you were born. People’s position in society is not determined by their race or gender or social status‚ but the purity and "perfection" of their genetic code. When going for a job in the workplace at Gattaca it’s common for the interview itself

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    determiner and controlling force of the market and productivity. This novel also shows us that one of the most significant roles that machines will play in fortifying the Posthuman civilization in the future world will be based upon extraction of maximum amount of information from all ordinary matters and for that purpose the Posthumans will have to dismantle every object and convert every mass around them into computational substrate: “The computing power of the solar system is now around one thousand

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    ”This story is about the fight of the under dog.” How are the themes of prejudice and courage developed in the film GATTACA? Gattaca directed by Andrew Niccol‚ is set in a future where science‚ and not religion‚ has taken over society. A new form of discrimination has arisen‚ called genoism‚ discrimination according to one’s genetic purity. The story follows a man named Vincent Freeman who was born as a god child this means he was genetically inferior to people born with the aid of technology

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