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cosmic horror - 26/9/21, existnalism - you are what you do - evil acts…
cosmic horror - 26/9/21
i need to find a specific question for this - discuss with parents - dad reads - mum is smart - win win
machine stops: ian forester
social media/zoom
vr
climate change/catastrophe
mobile phones
obedience to the machine
the authority of the machine derived from the obedience chosen of the crowd, they weren't oppressed they chose this - lock-down
religion replaced by worship of goods and technology
when the machine stops - snapchat - what happens when social media crashes - demonstrate and compare to that
machine = god - guy laced out as heretic
young/old dichotomy
dependence on machines
lack of physical face time e.g. lockdown/ homework
tv
media control over people's lives
ideas
learning for its own sake
touching other people seems risking in covid- normal in this world
anything you wanted was a click of a button away - amazon
brave new world; aldous huxley
somar - drug - all they care about is drug - makes them feel good
eugenics
farhenit 451
ANGLE OF ESSAY
philosphcal
psychology
marxist reading of it
language - 1984 - take away words - ability to express themselves fully - linguistic theory - investigate - language being used here she uses eg how the relative voracity and weakness and depth she has in her life - son contrast considerably more intelligent and passionate - automaton herself her thoughts are simple
machine destroyed her ability to communicate - broken relation - no empathy cant understand what hes saying - lost her humanity - she cant comprehend him - why cant she comprehend - no command of her language - been conditioned
old/young dichotomy
psychology: roles of parent _ child and reversed - youngin - freudin
what does it mean to be human
post human
internet of things
is struggle and hardship a prerequisite to be human - sociological - discipline - anthropologist
humanity fucked itself over - machien inst true antogonist - only ptoveided things
machine benefit and built for the people - machine at no point - no sinister power- feeds - safe communication and safe - that's enough for them
maslow heirachy of needs -
self accutalisation
youngin - process by which a person becomes psych individual a separate individsible unity, recognising their inner most uniqueness -
individuation
e.g. focus on themselves more than other people, recognising themselves as an individual, not a remember of a hive
lvl 1 physical needs - water food air - machine does that - first thing to go
lvl 2 safety - room starts falling apart
lvl 3 social - love and inclusion - 'facetime' stops working, transport stops working, alone with thought
lvl 4 ego - sense of personal identity estteem + self importance - shes no longer able to do seminars - no interaction - no way to show off knowledge to others - ,make her seen
lvl 5 self actualisation /enlightenment (in this context) - fufiling ones potential - ending - machine couldn't give her it - lowered her potential w/ relaitionship with machine + lack of language an thus ideas
2 more items...
they just wanted - can have it even if its wrong - personal identity - machine facilities it - ego is driven by what other unknown people think of her seminars rather than her own flesh and blood - no pride in mother (not part of her identity) , doesn't identify, hes an embarrassment ot her (heretical), she s a rule follower (shes created or signed up for, cf religion),
1 more item...
conscious
they don't struggle, think they have social- she treats son badly - machine fails with providing social interction in the end - even when the machien did work all social interaction were superifical
people who become self aware (greta + him)
they aren't trusted the evidence of their own senses
bishop burkly - only an indiviual sense and deas exist
religion
hearacy
various reading - maslov sociological 0 religious - relationship between mother and child (Freud and young) - tech - philosophical what dies it mean to be human/struggle - linguistic
5 stages of greif when the machien starts to stop
denial - from everyone
isolation
anger
baragianing
depression
acceptance
look at wether ian forcster had rwead neitsche, freud, his background, draw conclusions
nietsche - god is dead
In fact, the most serious outcome of Nietzsche's death of God is the death of man, or mankind, as one entity, defined by rational capacity and slotted into a vision of "rational" progress. So, "God is dead", but that means, for Nietzsche, on the plus side, that the body is free
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/feb/07/political-message-nietzsche-god-is-dead
it is only when the machine (allorgised as god) stops that humanity is truely free
mum is worshipper
son is the atheist
is language necessary for humanity + thought - geroge Orwell 1984 'double plus ungood'
her use of language to his - adjectives, flow of language, see if he mentions about the baurity of the world, contrast between what he says and use of languages,
collectie unconcious - god great destruction + floods
where is literature does the idea of struggle become necessary to be human
deconstruction of the machine:
questions for epq
dont have a proper philophical prose - does bishop burkly fit into this - existentialism
choose to be a human or not - the reader is meant to think son is right - mum is wrong - modern people of today - won't make themselves aware - understand don't care - or just not aware and cant understand
how? does he make us think this
various deconstructions of 'The Machine Stops' bu Ian forster: are we in the machine
why i dont want to do the french revolution/ why do i want to do this
short book, but has a lot of ideas that are intresting today, not just literary critism, tech, philophy, psychology, socialogoy, numerous different areas, in wa y that keeps it focused on this short story
existnalism - you are what you do - evil acts evil person - not predestined