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Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past examines contemporary representations of colonialism, by developing a historically and culturally specific theory of neocolonialism in U.S. media culture. Noting how colonialism never officially ended in the United States, Kent A. Ono draws together race, gender, sexuality, and nation to examine neocolonialism in popular media narratives. The book asks, "What are the lingering traces within contemporary culture that provide evidence not only of what colonialism was but also of what it continues to be today?" Offering five case studies on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the sale of the Seattle Mariners, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Pocahontas, and Star Trek: The Next Generation-and providing current media examples in the introduction and conclusion, the book documents the persistence of colonialism in media culture. White vigilantism, prototypical colonial rescue plots, and cloaked and not-so-hidden anxieties about racial and national miscegenation all contribute towards a continuation of colonialism and a neocolonial mind-set. The book's critical examination from a historical and cultural perspective makes it possible to alter colonialism for future generations.
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Jesse MacDonald
reviewed Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of the Colonial Past, Vol. 8 on November 05, 2017 Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of the Colonial Past, Vol. 8
The three books on the Matrix I'm reading now ask the questions I want to ask:
Why would anyone want to leave the Matrix? If I were completely aware of living in the Matrix, I would prefer it to eating mush and living in constant fear and ugliness. Freedom be damned - give me a steak.
Is there free will if the Oracle knows the future? Yes, and no. There's tenseless time (no past tense, future tense, present tense) but it all exists at once.
Are sentient programs possible or is this the Chinese Box? Chinese Box is a thought experiment - if someone says, "If you get this paper with these Chinese symbols, respond by giving back this paper with these symbols" it would look as if the respondent knows Chinese, when in fact the respondent is only pattern-matching. Is that the best that machines could ever do? Pattern match?
Using people as batteries is stupid. There must be more - maybe the sentient programs feel an obligation to humanity not to kill humans, but to prevent them from harming the programs, like a humane prison. The matrix is a humane containment to keep humans from killing them.
And on and on. Interesting stuff, in language I can comprehend.
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