Swords into ploughshares, celluloid into criticism?
It does seem to be a (technologically) determinist idea, when you put it that way--but I think that inasmuch as war boosterism is easy in anime, or film, the media do in fact lend themselves to promotion rather than criticism.
I haven't read Haraway, but her idea about cyborgs (i.e. posthuman subjects) being unfaithful to their origins strikes me to be exactly what posthumanist subjects--women, non-heterosexuals, non-white people, non-able-bodied people--are doing when they engage in what I think of as productive misreading of texts (media, books, discourses) that aren't obviously aimed at their viewpoints. Like Sonya Sotomayor, the new U.S. Supreme Court justice, being a huge Nancy Drew fan. So I think that it's not only possible to be unfaithful in that way, but absolutely necessary.
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Date: 2009-10-10 08:19 pm (UTC)It does seem to be a (technologically) determinist idea, when you put it that way--but I think that inasmuch as war boosterism is easy in anime, or film, the media do in fact lend themselves to promotion rather than criticism.
I haven't read Haraway, but her idea about cyborgs (i.e. posthuman subjects) being unfaithful to their origins strikes me to be exactly what posthumanist subjects--women, non-heterosexuals, non-white people, non-able-bodied people--are doing when they engage in what I think of as productive misreading of texts (media, books, discourses) that aren't obviously aimed at their viewpoints. Like Sonya Sotomayor, the new U.S. Supreme Court justice, being a huge Nancy Drew fan. So I think that it's not only possible to be unfaithful in that way, but absolutely necessary.