Round and Flat/Slothrop and Bianca

[Dave Monroe]

Very, very good.  Perhaps see also ...

Romanyshyn, Robert.  Technology as Sympton and Dream.
   New York: Routlegde, 1989.

http://www.routledge-ny.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=0415007879&parent_id=&pc=

"The book is structured around three images that are
the codes of the technological mind. There is the
image of the self as the spectator behind the window
who keeps his/her eye upon the world. There is the
image of the world as a spectacle for our measurement
and use, an image of the world as a mater of light on
its way to becoming a light matter, as evidenced in
the most significant expression of this view in the
physicist’s equation, E=mc2. And there is the image of
the human body as a specimen made necessary for the
spectator mind whose infinite vision would be impeded
by the body as erotic bond with the flesh of the
world.

[...]

"Chapter 7 turns the book back upon itself as the
dream of liftoff becomes the dream of return.
Exploring five paths of re-entry, this chapter
considers specific ways in which the symptomatic
character of technology can re-member technology as a
matter of homecoming. The earth as seen from space is
both a danger and an opportunity. It can be an image
of our final farewell, or an image of re-membrance of
who we are, where we come from, and of what
under-stands us in dreaming our technological dreams."

http://www.online.pacifica.edu/romanyshyn/stories/storyReader$60

Table of Contents

http://www.online.pacifica.edu/romanyshyn/stories/storyReader$51

Robert Romanyshyn On Technology as Symptom & Dream

A Conversation with Dolores E. Brien

http://www.cgjungpage.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=683&Itemid=40

--- kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> I think the "Slothrop inside his own cock" image
> anticipates the "Gottfried inside the rocket" image.


 
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