Comments on Existence is Wonderful: More Robot Art!

Marla: Yes she is. She does art stuff for video g...

2008-05-07T21:53:00.000-07:00

Marla: Yes she is. She does art stuff for video games too.

Your friend is very talented. I love it!

2008-05-07T15:18:00.000-07:00

Your friend is very talented. I love it!

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2008-05-03T11:37:00.000-07:00

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Genevieve

"Um, there's only one of me to begin with..."I kno...

2008-05-03T11:12:00.000-07:00

"Um, there's only one of me to begin with..."

I know, Anne! I have an unfortunate tendency to address blog writers in a mix of second and third person. To up the confusion, "anyone" was referring to Existence Is Wonderful's readers.

"Dutifully dystopian" was a glib remark, I admit. It wasn't directed at your views which I think I've come to know quite well, but at certain tropes of popular fiction.

I should say nothing more about Image Comics' "Transhuman", however, because I haven't read issue 1 so far.

"(If that makes any sense)"

Your nuanced explanations make absolutely sense.

And your friend's comic is a very nice, humanistic vignette!

FrF

Oh, and I'm also not a "dystopian" or even a pessi...

2008-05-03T09:18:00.000-07:00

Oh, and I'm also not a "dystopian" or even a pessimist, really -- I'm just not a utopian either. Trying to plan out the future like it was some sort of gated community seems both wrongheaded and self-limiting -- these days, I'm feeling much more like pushing for ways to "open the future" (to borrow a phrase from Jamais Cascio, if he's the one who came up with it).

That is, I don't think "utopia" can or should exist, but that people can still do things to make stuff better in the world -- like promote and use renewable energy, emphasize self-determination rights as far as modification and medical treatment go, etc. The contrast I see as important is between trying to mold the future according to the dreams and hopes of one smallish group of privileged people, and trying to work toward making sure all different kinds of people can pursue their dreams and hopes in their own way, in a maximally-sustainable manner.

(If that makes any sense).

Um, there's only one of me to begin with (unless y...

2008-05-03T09:11:00.000-07:00

Um, there's only one of me to begin with (unless you were also addressing my friend whose art site I linked to). But thanks anyway.

Also, I should point out that not calling myself a particular word does not imply that I am cutting myself off from looking at (or possibly even appreciating) something with that word attached to it.

I just got to the point where I realized that people were "expecting" certain things of me just for using the "t-word" to describe myself, and that got really annoying...all I ever wanted from it was a shorthand term that would convey "I'm interested in this stuff", but now I realize I'm better off just talking directly about the stuff I'm interested in, as the t-word isn't actually usefully communicative of that sort of thing.

Speaking of comics: Image, whose series Casanova (...

2008-05-03T00:57:00.000-07:00

Speaking of comics: Image, whose series Casanova (Complete first issue*) and Godland (Complete first issue) I like, has a new comic called Transhuman. I don't know whether anyone of you thinks this information is useful, especially considering Anne's recent distancing from the t-word. The Image comic sounds dutifully dystopian, though :-)

*See page numbers at the bottom for navigation.

FrF