Cyberplook (was VLVL(6) "conditionally become

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Just a little splinter off part of Dan's post, others
will probably think of many contemporary artists in whom the cybernetic
desire trope is fully fleshed (as it were) out; off the top though,
it's interesting to realize that Frank Zappa draws upon the same idea throughout his 
music--from the industrial vacuum cleaner Moterhead nuzzles in_200 Motels_
to the plot line of the magnificent _Joe's Garage_where cybersex 
with a gay robot that looks like a magical pig (hmmmmmmm)
with marital aids stuck all over it 
gets Joe thrown in jail.

Listen to the love song where Joe croons for cybersex.  Then send a copy of
this song to the Prez.  He'll get it.

johnny plooking too hard
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>From Dan--
>
>On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote:
>
>> Doug equates the scene where Prairie desperately tries
>> to identify with her mother through the cinematic screen with the
>> condition of reader before the text seeking the author of the text.
>> On what grounds can we draw the analogy?
>
>These moments of longing, of cybernetic desire often crop up in Pynchon -
>the camera in GR springs to mind.

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