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William Gibson's Neuromancer Staged With Porn Star
destinyland writes "Sunday night saw a reading of the William Gibson's classic cyberpunk novel featuring porn star Sasha Grey at a New York art museum, along with sculpture-props simulating virtual reality. Artist Brody Condon promised to combine 'Gibson's 1980s dystopian techno-fetishism with early twentieth-century abstraction,' but the editor of H+ magazine challenges that description. 'In a 1993 interview, Gibson himself told me: "I think my world looks dystopian if you're a middle class white guy doing reasonably well in 1993... There are so many places in the world today that are so much crappier than anything I'm writing about."' And earlier this month William Gibson shared his response to a blog post about the event. 'Gol' dang! It's news to me!'"
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Sasha Grey is the Queen of Loser Porn.
Amazing to see that in 2009 movie makers would still be trying something as stupid as hoping that casting some second tier porn skank is going to help hype and sell their film.
I didn't RTFA, but from /. alone, I am unsure if this article is about porn or the film itself. My attention span stopped at...
/. (you get the idea).
I didn't RTFA, but from
Something witty.
sculpture-props simulating virtual reality
You get the sense that someone doesn't quite grasp the basic concepts.
.. is this on slashdot?
But the world looks utopian if you're a middle class white guy doing Sasha Grey.
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This can't be real????
I was at the reading yesterday as part of my sojourns around Performa 09. No one else recognized her (that I could tell) in the audience, but it was a durational piece and I was only there a half hour. I was almost positive it was her, but she had these huge sunglasses on and I couldn't be sure...and it didn't seem like a good question to just ask a random chick at a performance piece while I was there with my gf...
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The world of _1984_ would look great to someone from Somalia or some of the other hellholes of the world. _Brave New World_ even more so. Yet they're still both considered dystopian. Same goes for Neuromancer.
translation: I think I am Napoleon Bonaparte.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I respect pornstars - is that wrong?
Doesn't the Declaration of Independents and Constitution imply that there is no Utopia hence we need checks and balances.
Is Dystopia the same as Non-Utopia?
Whenever someone (or some group) thinks they know what Utopia is, they try to force everybody down the same path.
- Things are the way they are because they're coded that way -
Where do you get jobs like this? First there's the "MIT artist-in-residence" job where you can send messages into space that will never be received. Now this one where you can prattle on about dystopian piffle hoo-ha and people with higher educations will nod and shake their heads knowingly because they don't want to look unhip, or however you kids describe the squares these days.
Hey, I have some lovely post-post-post modern retro-reconstructionist works that would make a great display somewhere. They fractalize the repetitive nature of our increasingly vapid 21st century existences via surrealist digital sculpture and open mike poetry reads by fast fading reality TV pseduocelebrities.
That kind of uncritical asinine blather never ceases to tweak me. Middle class anyone, Gibson, you tool. It's amazing that people spout (and think) racist shit like this, and it is left bare, unchallenged, validated by silence thus tacit approval. Fuck that. The assumption is what? If you're middle class but not white that your perspective is different? GMAFB. If you're middle class and white, like me, you can't possibly know about destitution? (I came from it).
Idiocy.
I agree the race dropping was uncalled for, but he also was giving this response in an interview, where we can't always pick the perfect words for what we're trying to say. If he was just trying to draw a distinction between middle class in the privileged (and largely white) West versus the middle class in, say, India where by US standards you're still desperately poor, I don't think it's entirely illegitimate.
Yes, they're all considered dystopian in the context of the West, but I think his point is astute, that whether something is a dystopia is contextual. The people living in positions of privilege, i.e. the West, wring their hands over and work hard to prevent these various dystopias from occurring, even while they may be actually working against the interests of the majority of humanity.
What we have now, if it wasn't reality, could be easily portrayed as a dystopia in a novel. Worse, the people with power to change things (the powered and moneyed people who are citizens in the first world) are unwilling to consider a lot of possibilities that may be on the table because they seem worse than their own privileged positions, without considering how badly off the majority of humanity is under their current system.
LOL, Thanks for making my morning. You know your post just makes me think you are indeed a fat fuck just trying to troll.
the contrived outrage: well-played sir
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
When you take into account the mindless sex-doll career of the character Molly, Sasha Grey is an apt choice for the part.
Glad to see some celebrities finally appreciating Gibson's work.
I mean - according to Wikipedia, roughly half of all famous people are porn stars, if you go by pagecount. There's something about that I haven't yet found words for.
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You're only as old as the woman you feel. - W. C. Fields
This just keeps getting better and better. You fucking jerkoff losers just can't help yourself.
Keep wasting your mod points. Here's some advice loser. Save up your allowance and fly to either Reno or LA. Fork over the cash to put your little peepee in a real live pornstar who hooks and get back to your sad little lives knowing that your pathetic jerkoff fantasies are like in Reality.
This chick takes two dicks up the ass, does a2m, and does that boner-killing duck sound when she gives head. She also can't shut the hell up with the dirty talk.
Some dirty talk == ok.
Incessant, repetitive dirty talk == not ok.
It's really unfortunate because she is really sexy as hell from a purely physical standpoint - but as soon as the action starts, the fun ends.
When I was growing up porn stars were very rare.
Today they are very common.
The stigma is less but so is the cachet.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
How about if you are a middle class "black" guy doing reasonably well in 1993?
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Given the quality of the replies so far, slashdot is sorely in need of commment moderation ..
trolling trolls trolling trolls.
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They somehow never manage to survive the death of the body.
Also, they seem to thrive in a well fed and groomed body, and whither away at the slightest danger to body's existence.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
What definition of fame are you using?
if you go by pagecount.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
...which puts it roughly on professional par with a Community Theater production of Guys and Dolls in Toledo, except you don't leave the theater humming any of the tunes.
And I'm not just being snarky... I remember my last such show in SoHo: the second act began with the performer crawling out of a giant garbage bag (featuring real garbage), singing a song about former UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick set to the tune of "Mr. Sandman" (that's Chordettes, not Metallica, as in "bung bung bung bung BUNG BUNG bung bung BUNG BUNG bung BUNG BUNG...!").
Anybody -- ANYBODY! -- ANNN-NEEE-BODY!!! -- and I've dated more than my share, yet have somehow avoided therapy -- can have a "One Woman Show" in NYC (which looks great on a resume, of course); all you need to do is rent a theater (of which there are hundreds available -- it's a cottage industry) and, ummm, believe in yourself...
Doesn't that make you a loser too?
I could stage a few events with Sasha Grey.. they would not be considered sci-fi (unless the props I were to use would be considered sci-fi... plasma powered "toys" anyone?)
STD's are actually fairly uncommon in the mainstream porn industry. Some performers wear condoms
Genital herpes is endemic and ubiquitous in the mainstream porn industry.
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Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
Translation: "I am Napoleon Bonaparte, and you aren't!"
You are welcome on my lawn.
> About as much fun to be around as picking weeds from your garden.
You pick weeds from your garden? Who's the loser now?
but my jerkoff fantasy involves real dead pornstars....
It seems that Adult Video Network have outdone themselves as contemporary culture critics... http://business.avn.com/articles/36788.html reads like a Sunday Times supplement, who would have thought?