Theory in a Digital Age: A Project of English 483 Students, Coastal Carolina University Main Menu Theory in a Digital Age Remediation This chapter will showcase how the remaking of art can leave its impact. Cornel West and Black Lives Matter MacKenzie McKeithan-Prickett Determination in Gaming The Mind Set and Experience The Hope for a Monstrous World Without Gender Introduction to "A Cyborg Manifesto" and Thesis Freud's Uncanny Double: A Theoretical Study of the Portrayal of Doubles in Film This 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 Spaces Ashley Canter "Eddy and Edith": Online Identities vs. Offline Identities A 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 Connotations Is the Sonographic Fetus a Cyborg? How sonographic technology initiates gendered socialization Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Digital Laborer Paradox of Race Dr. Cornel West, W.E.B Du Bois, and Natasha Trethewey Sleep Dealer - Digital Labor By Melissa Harby The Kevin Spacey Effect: Video Games as an Art Form, the Virtual Uncanny, and the Simulacrum The Twilight Zone in the Uncanny Valley Introduction The Virtual Economy and The Dark Web How Our Economy is Changing Behind the Scenes Transgender Representation and Acceptance in the Mainstream How the trans* movement has caused and exemplifies the spectralization of gender A Voice for the Humanities in A Divided America Dr. Cornel West on the indifference in our society and how he thinks the humanities can help heal it Reading Between the Lines: Diversity and Empowerment in Comics

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“Sleep Dealer” is a film produced by Alex Rivera. Memo, the protagonist, likes to create things by hand, but this time it is a listening device that he is able to use a code to hack into a military server. Soon, he put his family in danger because a military drone received the coordinates to Memo’s home. The danger of the day wasn’t what Memo was doing, but the fact they miscalculated who the person was and killed Memo’s dad.  Memo left home to find work to help out his family knowing his mom needed the help. When he first entered the new city, Tijuana, Mexico, he was staying at a random place until Luz, the woman on the bus, met up with him and invited him into her home. As he walked through the streets of Tijuana, Memo is introduced with this new technology called nodes. They sold this technology off the black market, which wasn't the safest way to receive them. Nodes are basic neurotransmitters that enter the body and connect to machinery for work and social aspects. This is where he received nodes to connect to a company called "Sleep Dealer." Luz carefully inserted these nodes into Memo's body and got him a job at Sleep Dealer. This company uses these nodes to connect to a machine to a virtual reality that works on buildings. Using Memo as the human behind these robots, he loses touch of the truth and the way life is around him by surrounding his-self with nothing but work. All the money he earns is sent to his family back home in Santa Ana Del Rio, Mexico.




 

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