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Below The Neck

May 9, 2017GE2017, Mindfulness, Movies, Sci-fi, Science, StrokeGhost in the Shell, Neuropolis, Robert Newman, Under the Skinricky

So – two weeks later – I’ve finally reconciled myself to the ending of the live-action version of Ghost In The Shell.

Best chip shop name ever: A Salt and Battery — Final Assault: I promise, no more GitS after today

My question about the Hollywood movie of Ghost In The Shell was:

If the fictional Hanka Robotics has developed a mechanical body, or “shell”, that can integrate a human brain; and
“We cling to memories as if they define us, but they don’t. What we do is what defines us”; then
Why would an anarchist who is rounded up to be a test specimen in a shell choose to define herself by the actions she is ordered to take by the government?

Read on for the “exciting” answer…

[But first, check out the exciting Apoplexy Tiny Letter.]

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Into The Trees

May 2, 2017Current Affairs, EU Referendum, Politics, ScienceBrexit, Ghost in the Shellricky

I guess a couple of the questions that Ghost in the Shell – the subject of last week’s post – raises are What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be alive? And inadvertently, What does it take to turn a squat-dwelling anarchist into a willing super-weapon for a government that used her as a disposable lab experiment?

Quick! Unplug the Channel 4 election fraud wire! — What? Oh, it’s just the quickest way to absorb BBC News.

Long-suffering readers of the blog may recall that I’m interested in what it means to be alive….

[Find more enjoyably prosaic thoughts in the Apoplexy Tiny Letter]

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Ghost in the Shell

April 25, 2017Comics, Dr. Who, Mindfulness, Movies, Reviews, Sci-fiClint Mansell, Ghost in the Shell, Scarlett Johanssonricky

OK. Two weeks ago was #stroke news. Last week was music. That must mean that this week, it’s… SCI-FI!!!

But let’s not be too predictable. I’m not going to bang on too much about last weekend’s Doctor Who. Although Smile was a good little episode. Thought-provoking. In fact, as I think about it again, I reckon that it might have been more satisfying that this week’s bigger, sexier, sci-fi outing.

I'm wearing a hoodie right now, Sexy — “But middle-aged Scottish men are sexier than Scarlett Johansson!” (FACT)

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Ghost in the Shell