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By Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland, one of many world's largest cultural brains, takes an inside of examine the worldwide corporation that retains us hooked up, and wonders what all that connectivity is doing to our brains and our experience of ourselves as humans.
The incomparable Douglas Coupland experiences from contained in the company workplaces and technological know-how labs of Alcatel-Lucent, a globally influential company whose paintings is basically unknown to shoppers. "Were it to fade tomorrow," he writes, "our sleek global might grind to a halt. the web could implode--your web might implode." even though his exam of the corporate is playful and interesting in its personal correct, Coupland's account is pushed by way of his considerate reflections at the greater cultural and sociological value of the transformative details know-how Alcatel works on: fiber twine, microprocessors, the web and cellular applied sciences. And through a bigger meditation approximately what the net is doing to us because it relentlessly colonizes the planet, and our brains.

Like Coupland's most sensible paintings, Kitten Clone is a wildly interesting but penetrating stumble upon with the technological and cultural forces that encompass us. and likewise a stunning and specified exploration of a potential destiny.

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The fetishistic qualities of women wielding such a heavily coded phallic symbol constitutes one of the major themes of feminist director Kathryn Bigelow’s Blue Steel (1990). Throughout the film rookie cop Meghan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is forced to negotiate her conflicting gender status as it is implicated in her relationships with guns and powerful men. The opening credits sequence is an obvious fetishizing display of Turner’s weapon: in an extreme close-up, with vaguely erotic background music and stylistic blue lighting, the camera dwells on the contours, the shaft, and the hollows of her standard issue Smith & Wesson.

The message of the joke is clear: masculinity is determined by one’s ability to perform certain culturally recognizable traits, and conversely to fail to perform these traits adequately implies one can be seen as feminine. ” While the action heroine’s heterosexuality is somewhat recovered by the narrative in order to escape any possibly offending lesbian implications, she is still read within the confines of gender attributes as symbolically male. The ability of women to function successfully in what is coded as a masculine role illustrates the socially constructed nature of that role.

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