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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!'"
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.
R.U. Sirius has been writing for years, and was the editor of Mondo 2000 magazine during the '90s, as well as co-author of Cyberpunk Handbook:: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook with St. Jude. So yes, it's very real (and not the first time his work has found the convergence of cyberpunk and porn, either...)
AC time!
Not everyone's going to know who Sasha Grey is.
Not everyone's going to have read Neuromancer and hence know what a meat puppet is.
Let me help.
In Neuromancer, one of the main characters, Molly, has a back-story in which she accepts money to be a "meat puppet". Using sci-fi technology, her mind is absent, while her body is used recreationally for purposes she is not aware of. Sometimes she is "a little sore" afterwards.
Sasha Grey is a porn star who stands out (in my opinion). She is obviously very intelligent. Yet she takes part as the submissive role in fairly extreme scenes of consensual degredation, which she seems to relish.
A minority to who? The only way that's at all possible is if you say we're a minority compared to everyone else added up, which is stupid.
You might think it's stupid, but that's what the word "minority" means!
Minority means < 50%
Majority means > 50%
Super-majority means > 50% + X, where X is some positive number.
They are not relative terms.
The most rabid believers in American Exceptionalism are the exact same people whose policies are destroying it.