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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 8: Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[Reading Response] M. Christine Boyer: “The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities”

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Nowadays, social media platforms have become an essential part of our lives and can be used as synonyms to describe our identity. Therefore, the book “The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities” Author by M. Christine Boyer can help us to know how these phenomena change our understanding to the real world and the imaginary worlds. From the book, Boyer mainly explores how movies and media influence our views on life and the world. Boyer also defined “CyberCities” as a virtual space within computer networks, she explained how CyberCities blurs the boundaries between physical and virtual reality, and how CyberCities provide

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 4: Everyday Spaces as Narrative

[Reading Response] Eunice Seng: “Cuts through Hong Kong”

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This article is a thoughtful and profound analysis of the movie “In the Mood for Love” by Director Wong Kar-Wai. The author, Eunice Seng, explores the inevitable and irreversible concepts that the movie portrays, such as love, migration, and temporary identity, from both a micro and macro perspective. The article argues that changes are inevitable, whether it is the 1960s when the plot is set, the filming time in 2000, or even our current time of 2024. Seng also highlights the movie’s use of “spatial and temporal collage” to capture and convey the old and new cultural ideas that were

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