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Terminator I by Randall Frakes & W.H. Wisher(Romanian translation from 1994,editura Elit Comentator Bucharest)
I got this book from our friend at toate.org from a fleamarket raid ending with a few other classix such as The Sphere. This was the book the movie was based on. There are several reasons why I started reading it. First, because it introduced the cyborg as a pop phenomenon into the US. Particularly…
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Discipline and Control in the Post-9/11 Superhero Film: The Cyborg Superhero
Re-post with the kind permission of the author. This is an excerpt from Dan Hassler-Forest [tw @DanHF] timely book Capitalist Superheroes about the new roles old DC/Marvel caped superheroes have been called to play in a new post-Fordist capitalist pop economy. This particular excerpt hints at how enhanced costumes, data visualization, intuitive GUIs, panoptic surveillance,…