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The technological landscape plays a primary role in the characters lives of J.G Ballard’s Crash. Ballard depicts a very constructed world around the characters, and arguably all of society. The world of Crash is organized by technology through its structures, objects, and even people. In a general overview on the environment of information, the Online Computer Library Center states that “increased investments in technologies and standards … allow organizations to bring structure to unstructured data” (De Rosa 35). This is a fitting metaphor at play in Crash. The technological landscape is pressed into the foreground throughout Crash, and I view the characters of the novel as unstructured data trying to escape the technology that is attempting to structure them. The characters attempt to escape technology by adopting neo-posthuman and philobatic personalities, but only deepen their dependence on the technological landscape that literally consumes them.
The term “Philobat” was coined by Michael Balint, an object relations theorist from the psychoanalytic school of psychology (25). The term refers to a personality type that enjoys a form of thrills that Balint outlines in his book Thrills & Regressions, conversely, the opposing personality to the philobat Balint labels as “Ocnophil” (25). The thrills found pleasurable by philobats, conversely by ocnophils, encompass three stages. First a conscious fear to—or from—a stimuli must occur, followed by an intentional exposure to said fear, and the confidence in tolerating the fear with an understanding of returning to safety from the fear. Three examples of the thrills outlined by these given rules are provided by Balint. They are related to “high speed” such as motor car racing, “exposed situations” like rock climbing, and new experiences such as “new forms of ‘perverse’ sexual activities” (Balint 23-24). Very literal forms of the three stages that outline Balint’s description of thrills are childhood games like hide and seek or tag. The conscious fear of the catcher role, and the safety of a home or free zone, provides the first and last stage of a thrill. The second stage is satisfied with participation in the game being the intentional exposure to fear. A more abstract form of thrill is seen in what the term philobat was derived from: the acrobat. An acrobat analogy is more in tune with how philobats relate to Crash.
Technology has been around as long as people have and has been advancing ever since. It is the reason that we have access to the miraculous tools that we do today. From the forks that we eat our supper with to the cars that get us from place to place technology is everywhere. However, with technology advancing at such a rapid pace, it could pose a threat to our future society. In the short stories “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut and “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet, the authors describe how bleak society could become if we do not take precautions when using technology.
By using a product of technology, the computer, and showing how it was supposed to be a perfect solution to the city's problems, yet it made a grave error in calculations, the author is saying that many problems faced by man cannot be solved by the use of technology. Technology played a negative role in this book. The computer, the major aspect of technology used in this book, used its capabilities to immorally rule the citizens and the city of Thompsonville. The computer transmitted hypnotic signals through peoples T.V. sets and would use them to carry out it's will to ultimately control the city.
A personality is a combination of various attributes that belong to a single person. Each one has its own unique qualities and traits that create an individual that is different from any other human being. How this individuality is formed depends on the environment that a person has lived through and their experiences. Alison Bechdel grew up in a home with a father who alienated himself from his family so that he could conceal a dark secret from his life. Nevertheless, Bechdel was able to take from her past so that she could become a strong and independent women who kept true to who she was. Likewise, straying from the expected path of her family, Dorothy Allison was determined to become the person who she wanted to be. Expressing who she is and not changing to match others expectations has become high priority in Allison’s adult life. It was through a journey of hardship in their childhoods, both Allison and Bechdel were able to discover their individual identities in their adult life.
The rapid evolution of technology and its overarching influence in the lives of the great majority of those who access it has inspired a plethora of texts that contemplate the possible future of our mechanically-saturated world. Two such texts are the classic Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut and the more contemporary The Circle by Dave Eggers. Player Piano follows the story of Paul Proteus, who struggles to understand the new hierarchy that the age of machines has installed as he observes the declining quality of life for all those who are not wealthy and intelligent. The Circle follows a young woman, Mae Holland, who becomes increasingly dependent on technology as she rises through the ranks of an influential computer-based company. These
In this paper I will explore various personality theories as applied to River Tam. River Tam is portrayed in the 2002 television series 'Firefly ' and the 2005 movie 'Serenity '. She grew up as a part of the wealthy Tam family on the “core” planet, Osirius. Osirius is governed by the “Alliance,” which is a part of the Union of all planets or the UAP. The UAP was established after a war which lasted for 6 years. It is comparable to our own government combined with China’s, strict, money ruled politics, corrupt officials, etc… Early in her life, as young as 3, she was discovered to be quite intellectually gifted. She was also portrayed as being remarkably graceful which is depicted by the elegance with which she fights. At age 14, River was enrolled in the graduate physics program and had become bored with her studies. The Alliance used the guise of a school for the gifted and took River into a program used to train government assassins. She was
Many of Ray Bradbury’s works are satires on modern society from a traditional, humanistic viewpoint (Bernardo). Technology, as represented in his works, often displays human pride and foolishness (Wolfe). “In all of these stories, technology, backed up by philosophy and commercialism, tries to remove the inconveniences, difficulties, and challenges of being human and, in its effort to improve the human condition, impoverishes its spiritual condition” (Bernardo). Ray Bradbury’s use of technology is common in Fahrenheit 451, “The Veldt,” and The Martian Chronicles.
Set in the future, the novelist creates a civilisation severely dependant on technology. This unnatural world is constantly and
The humanistic perspective on personality deals exclusively with human behavior. Humanistic psychologists believe that human nature includes a natural drive towards personal growth, that humans have the freedom to choose what they do regardless of environmental factors, and humans are mostly conscious beings and are not controlled by unconscious needs and conflicts. They also believe that a person's subjective view of the world is more important than objective reality. Two of the humanistic theorists that have made an impact of humanism are Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.
People all around agree that technology is changing how we think, but is it changing us for the better? Clive Thompson definitely thinks so and this book is his collection of why that is. As an avid fiction reader I wasn’t sure this book would captivate me, but the 352 pages seemingly flew past me. The book is a whirlwind of interesting ideas, captivating people, and fascinating thoughts on how technology is changing how we work and think.
Are you born with the personality and behavior you have or the way you were raised? Nature refers to heredity, the influence of inherited characteristics on personality, physical growth, intellectual growth, and social interactions. And nurture refers to the influence of the environment on all those same things and includes parenting styles, physical surroundings, economic factors, and anything that can have an influence on development does not come from within the person (White 312-313). Nature vs Nurture Twin studies are a vastly important tool in dissecting the nature vs nurture controversy, one study included were two identical twin girls that were adopted in China by different parents; both raised in two different continents. Was found
... to foretell of a dystopian America that has eerily similar qualities to current- day- America even though he wrote this book over sixty years ago. Just as the novel predicts, People are becoming buried in their technology, leaving books and social interactions lower on peoples’ priority list. They want to have the latest technology to make it seem like they live a successful life. People have turned towards the technology obsessively in order to have fun entertainment and feel happy. Medication consumption is higher than ever and humans are addicted to fast- paced actions that provide them with their coveted entertainment. America is changing, moving towards an alarming technological dystopia just as the America in the novel did.
The following essay will discuss how the ideas in “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, is expressed in the futuristic novel Feed, by M.T Anderson.
There have been many great books that have been based on the growing relationship of technology and human beings. Today, technology is continuously changing and evolving along with the way people adapt to these technological advances. Technology has completely changed our way of living, it has entwined with our humanity, by being able to replace limbs and organs that we once thought could not be replaced. One of the most crucial things that technology has changed is the way people in society interact with one another. A story written by William Gibson titled “Burning Chrome”, portrays that very idea. In his text, Gibson presents that the reader lives within a world where there is no boundaries or limitations between technology and humans. They become a part of each other and have evolved side by side into a society where a person can turn their conscious mind into data and upload it to non-physical, virtual world. In this research paper I will discuss how our society’s culture and interaction with one another has changed and adapted with the advancements of technology over the years.
In Conclusion William Gibson created a cyberpunk/ postmodernism tale that has blurred not only the physical state between mechanics and human anatomy, but has as well blurred the line between the natural and virtual world. He is making the reader contemplate how both software and hardware have influenced the natural world. Gibson’s fictional world would have not been possible without the existence of software and hardware, that is why the distinction between them is very crucial and play a different part within the text. Without these two things, the reader would not be able to comprehend and relate to Gibson’s view on how our society is interlocking with the advances of technology and the normality of today will no longer exist in the future.
The concept of personality has numerous definitions (Fatahi, Moradi, & Kashani-Vahid, 2016). Schultz and Schultz (2009), define personality in its broad sense as the manner of an individual’s behaviour in different situations. This essay explores the nature of personality, with the intention of highlighting its flexibility. The results of numerous empirical research studies are examined in order to investigate if, and how personality changes over time. It will be argued that an individual’s personality has the ability to change throughout their life.