Benjamin Waters retweeted
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK was released 43 years ago today. One of Hollywood’s most popular films and most acclaimed sequels, the making of story is as huge as you’d expect.
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#bcm325 the verse hopping technology demonstrates McLuhan’s concept of the extension of man. The verse hopping technology is less a tool for becoming something new and more an expression of discovering new parts of ourselves
#bcm325 should we consider the fractalisation of Joy and Evelyn to be an exploration of the singularity?
#bcm325 this entire film could have been avoided if alpha-Evelyn had just considered second-order cybernetics when pushing Joy to learn verse-hopping
#bcm325 I’m not sure if the reference was intentional but I definitely got Kung Fu Panda vibes
#bcm325 I really wish this film would go further into the implications of decision making and decision processes and how it impacts the course of the narrative. Its certainly here, but we get such brief glimpses at it
#bcm325 This is the one week I haven't had an Anthropocene tweet and I'm absolutely devastated that I missed this
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#bcm325 this film is the definition of weirdly weird and loves itself for it
Benjamin Waters retweeted
'Why do you always download these apps on my phone?' is presentational media in a sense that she enters a whole new world through her mobile device #bcm325
#bcm325 this fascinating video discusses the limitations of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once in its explorations of the multiverse through its medium. A great discussion of capitalist realism and the influence of corporations over legacy media youtube.com/watch?v=I9w16mmI…
#bcm325 this film feels like the ultimate homage to alternative history as a fantasy
Benjamin Waters retweeted
A paradigm is a pattern, a set of concepts that provide a framework of understanding something. The internet fractured the Representational media paradigm of one to many with one to one multimedia⚡️ #bcm325
#bcm325 the complete chaos of the laundromat can be seen as a failed attempt by Evelyn to try and do everything herself and her lack of trust in those around her, demonstrating a total lack of operations research
#bcm325 better hope your only day off isn’t a Tuesday or Thursday
#bcm325 did The Real Hero theme in Avengers Endgame rip off Ready Player One?
#bcm325 the Trans-Humanism of the Cyberspace may provide catharsis for those who cannot achieve their final goals in the mortal space


















