Queer Theory & Futurism

[rich]

girl afraid where do his intentions lay?
or does he even have any?



On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:39 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Note:
>
> Lara Croft is the monstrous offspring of science, an idealized
> eternally young female automaton, a malleable, well-trained
> techno-puppet created by and for the male gaze. The popular Nuderaider
> patch, a game add-on that strips Lara Crofts clothing is evidence of
> this gender-subject configuration. The fusion of femininity, death and
> technology in characters like Lara Croft is a lucrative and enduring
> formula in capitalist market-based economies, a potent combination
> noted as early as 1951 in Marshall McLuhan’s essay, "The Mechanical
> Bride". Lara Croft traces her lineage to the female robot in Fritz
> Lang’s "Metropolis", mannequins, blow-up dolls and comic book
> heroines. She is a product of the mechanization of bodies beginning in
> the Industrial Revolution; her fetishized beauty resides in her slick
> and glistening 3-D generated polygons, evolved from clunky robotic
> metals into more appropriate attire for Information Society.
> http://switch.sjsu.edu/web/v4n1/annmarie.html
>
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