My Fair Ladies

[rich]

a bit more nuanced in the Jewish tradition, no? as protector despite its
unnatural origins?

rich

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:50 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is the female version of a golum. Golums always exact a counter-force
> (karma) because they are forced, unnatural, in Pynchon's universe. They are
> Technology: human meddling in  some concept of a natural order. In V. this
> desire for control is embodied embodied (a stand-in for Everything)
> in Fetishism, which is just a degree or so shy of Necro-desire. The
> desperate need for Control embodied by Technology is a super-mortal Sin
> infecting raw humanity, in Pynchon's universe. Humans trying to usurp God
> (Lucicer's Sin). Pynchon is a very religious/mystic writer.
>
> And it is also clear that all of the above nature of humanity's sin are
> massively amplified by Capitalism.
>
> David Morris
>
>
> On Wednesday, May 6, 2015, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My Fair Ladies
>> Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves
>> Julie Wosk (Author)
>> 240 pages, 60 black and white and 12 color photographs
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> The fantasy of a male creator constructing his perfect woman dates
>> back to the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Yet as technology has
>> advanced over the past century, the figure of the lifelike manmade
>> woman has become nearly ubiquitous, popping up in everything from
>> Bride of Frankenstein to Weird Science to The Stepford Wives. Now
>> Julie Wosk takes us on a fascinating tour through this bevy of
>> artificial women, revealing the array of cultural fantasies and fears
>> they embody.
>>
>> My Fair Ladies considers how female automatons have been represented
>> as objects of desire in fiction and how “living dolls” have been
>> manufactured as real-world fetish objects. But it also examines the
>> many works in which the “perfect” woman turns out to be artificial—a
>> robot or doll—and thus becomes a source of uncanny horror. Finally,
>> Wosk introduces us to a variety of female artists, writers, and
>> filmmakers—from Cindy Sherman to Shelley Jackson to Zoe Kazan—who have
>> cleverly crafted their own images of simulated women.
>>
>> Anything but dry, My Fair Ladies draws upon Wosk’s own experiences as
>> a young female Playboy copywriter and as a child of the “feminine
>> mystique” era to show how images of the artificial woman have loomed
>> large over real women’s lives. Lavishly illustrated with film stills,
>> artwork, and vintage advertisements, this book offers a fresh look at
>> familiar myths about gender, technology, and artistic creation.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/product/My-Fair-Ladies,5458.aspx
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