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Cat Links 2021 Blog, Lecture 8 Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[READING RESPONSE] Christine Boyer

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One of the inspiring ideas in the reading is about discipline. In the past, the king had the power to execute the criminals. As time passes, execution is abolished, and the government tends to use more gentle ways to treat the criminals. The way proposed by Michel Foucault is observation. In his idea, a circular prison is built with an observation tower in the center. In this way, several workers are enough for the surveillance of the prison. When the prisoners know they are being monitored, they will behave well. It is important for the establishment of discipline. This kind

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Reading Response: Carl Abbott

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“Migratory Cities” explored a plethora of imaginary worlds from science fiction novels, movies and architectural posts, analysing each world settings but looking at its survival methods, energy efficiency and other aspects. Looking at this pantheon of fictional settings closely, I come to the conclusion that worlds of science fiction are reflections of our own cities, as well as imagination and inspiration of how our cities could be built differently. The latter half of the text mainly explored the idea of distributed cities. Instead of a bigger, more concentrated city, distributed cities are a series of smaller cities, each with its

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Cat Links Lecture 8 Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[Reading Response: Carl Abbott]

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When we discussed the film, Snowpiercer, in which the train represented a moving city with a rigorous classification of people, I thought of a science fiction, Folding Beijing. In this book, the city keeps transforming. People from three classes live in three different spaces and the city folds every day to switch spaces. Similar to Snowpiercer, the three classes in the book receive disparate treatments and the lower classes always desire to get to First Space. However, different from Snowpiercer, people living in the city never think of fighting for equality. Lao Dao, the main character, breaks the rule of not

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Cat Links 2021 Blog, Lecture 8 Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[Reading Response: Carl Abbott]

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I was interested in the “moving cities” that were proposed through Science Fiction in Abbot C.’s article, all made by a question of “But what if a city could move?”(74) Therefore, in our tutorial session, we talked about various moving cities, including a train in a film, Snowpiercer. The train, which represents an industrialized past and technology superior future, is a “moving city” through the ice where social discriminations are greater as a “generation ship”.(81) The train a material that shows both oppression and privilege, the ground of a rebellious plot. I guess that was why I felt like everything

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Cat Links 2021 Blog, Lecture 7 Monsters, Materials & Skyscrapers, Monsters, Materials + Skyscrapers

[Reading Response: TSUTSUI W.M]

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In “Oh No There Goes Tokyo”, Tsutsui W.M mentions that in the years since World War II fictional apocalypse has been visited upon Tokyo more frequently than any location on the globe. He claims that in the “Doom laden dreams “of Japanese popular culture, Tokyo has fallen victim to, earthquakes, floods, fire cyclonic winds, alien invasions, giant monsters and robots. These fictional apocalypses are usually understood by audiences as a result of humiliation and persisting traumas from the second world war. It is true that the bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki have engraved wounds on the Japanese minds that would take

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Cat Links Lecture 5 Urban Infrastructure as Event

[Reading Response: Michel de Certeau]

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“Space is practiced Place.” This four words’ sentence is the main idea in Michel de Certeau’s. Spatial Stories. Michel gives the “space” and “place” a counter-intuitive definition: place means the objective, physical place, while space is related with subjective memories and emotions. Thus, “Space is practiced Place” actually means that, only when an objective place is used by human, it would become part of the subjective experience and memory.   Michel elaborates this opinion by making an analogy with map and tour.  A map is only shows certain objects’ location – it only shows the place, not the space. However,

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