Posts by Sacha
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Elvis has already re-entered the building, apparently.
Of course, it is markedly eerier when such technology is used to bring artists such as Tupac back from the grave. For his 50th birthday party, Simon Cowell hired Musion to create a hologram of his (deceased) hero, Frank Sinatra, singing Pennies From Heaven that performed for his 400 guests.
And in 2007, American Idol viewers were shocked to witness Celine Dion duet with Elvis Presley on his hit If I Can Dream (although this was done using a process called rotoscoping, which allows you to take one image from a pre-existing piece of video and put it in a whole new environment, as opposed to using a hologram projection).
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
What does create social change, if not individual decisions?
Collective political action. Conversation like this.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
Height and curviness, at least, have gone in and out of fashion over the centuries.
Have shorter men been attractive in some cultures?
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
But then we're getting into the 'how'.
You say that like it's a bad thing. :)
Individual decisions don't magically create social change. I'd prefer a utopia with some chance of success.
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Hard News: Did Holopac change everything?, in reply to Peter Darlington,
Gibbo's writing is looking more and more onto it by the day
Has he been wrong about anything so far? Coolhunter extraordinaire.
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Hard News: Really The Blues, in reply to Russell Brown,
But who knew that would be a qualification for presenting tv news, eh.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Tom Beard,
no-one's desires and actions are immune to received wisdom, unspoken assumptions, peer pressure, advertising, body-shaming and the countless other forms of cultural influence and persuasion to which we are subject.
agreed
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
Oh, disability for one. Society's attitudes won't magically improve just because mine do, and it won't stop humans from being animals who make sexual decisons on ancient imperatives that reason doesn't reach. Symmetry, height and curviness won't stop being sexy just because a wider range of things might be.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
That's certainly utopian, yes. Anarchistic perhaps. Seems unlikely to address things that are not matters of personal preference or socio-psychological constraint.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
Which perhaps is being all 'libertarian', but actually I'm calling bullshit on that, because part of living together collectively is accepting that our individual experiences are different, and making space for that.
Yes, but who's making the space, and how? I'm hearing a lot of 'me' here.