My Fair Ladies

[Dave Monroe]

Golem
Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid

Moshe Idel - Author

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-308-golem.aspx

http://books.google.com/books/about/Golem.html?id=WqFkSKT9XKcC

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:26 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> a bit more nuanced in the Jewish tradition, no? as protector despite its
> unnatural origins?
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> 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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