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Theory in a Digital Age: A Project of English 483 Students, Coastal Carolina UniversityMain MenuTheory in a Digital AgeRemediationThis chapter will showcase how the remaking of art can leave its impact.Cornel West and Black Lives MatterMacKenzie McKeithan-PrickettDetermination in GamingThe Mind Set and ExperienceThe Hope for a Monstrous World Without GenderIntroduction to "A Cyborg Manifesto" and ThesisFreud's Uncanny Double: A Theoretical Study of the Portrayal of Doubles in FilmThis chapter of the book will look at the history of the theme of the "double" using Freud's Uncanny as the theoretical insight of the self perception of the double in film/cinema.From Literacy to Electracy: Resistant Rhetorical Bodies in Digital SpacesAshley Canter"Eddy and Edith": Online Identities vs. Offline IdentitiesA fictional story about online identities and offline identities. (Also a mash-up video between Eddy and Edith and Break Free.)“Pieces of Herself”: Key Signifiers and Their ConnotationsIs the Sonographic Fetus a Cyborg?How sonographic technology initiates gendered socializationPost-Capitalism: Rise of the Digital LaborerParadox of RaceDr. Cornel West, W.E.B Du Bois, and Natasha TretheweyThe Kevin Spacey Effect: Video Games as an Art Form, the Virtual Uncanny, and the SimulacrumThe Twilight Zone in the Uncanny ValleyIntroductionThe Virtual Economy and The Dark WebHow Our Economy is Changing Behind the ScenesTransgender Representation and Acceptance in the MainstreamHow the trans* movement has caused and exemplifies the spectralization of genderA Voice for the Humanities in A Divided AmericaDr. Cornel West on the indifference in our society and how he thinks the humanities can help heal itReading Between the Lines: Diversity and Empowerment in ComicsJen Boyle54753b17178fb39025a916cc07e3cb6dd7dbaa99
In the analysis of “Sleep Dealer” we experience commodities as an exchange of goods in a society where everyone has necessities. For example, nodes are capitalized and advertised as a commodity fetish in "Sleep Dealer" to promote a lifestyle that everyone can enjoy because it pays for them to use their nodes for labor. This is not to say that “social value” is being diminished, but commodities do carry money at a high value. In this case, money is being produced through humans by using them as robots to do work in a virtual reality. Another thing to keep in interest, is the idea that the mind and body have two different paths in this film. I’ll dive into this later. Commodities and labor both have significance in Karl Marx’s piece as well as the film “Sleep Dealer,” but what makes labor useful is how products are being valued.The products that are of high value are nodes, mind, body, and humanity. The humanity of humans are being diminished at the sacrifice of their own lives. Whether they are trying to earn money for their families or survive on their own, it's at the cost of their life.
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