Conclusion
Well now you know a little about
where I come from, what I've experienced, and what I've observed there. You
might be wondering at this point, so what? As I stated in my introduction, The Cupertino 'Burbs project explores the way my memories
connect together, how they are strung and tied to other memories. One of the
greatest challenges of exploring a memory of a limited place (
And it's not just my own memories
either. Just think of all the people I've met and how I'm a part of their
memories as much as they might be part of mine. Each individual stores their
own memory web too, and their webs are all tangled with mine, and maybe even
yours.
Another thing I've tried to discuss
was the theory behind this class (The Cyborg Self). I
mentioned Baudrillard perhaps too much and Haraway a bit too little, but what
can I say? I'm a Baudrillard fan - simulation, simulacra, and the hyperreal. I
talk about how simulation works in computer games,
arcades, airsoft, and even
nature. It's theories like his that make me love
movies such as the Matrix so much and question just what I'm doing here on
Earth, at Brown, or even back home in Cupertino.
To address Haraway's less-liked and
less-substantial (at least to me) theories, I've explored how femninism works
in our cyborg world. I've explored my observations of gender and race. Check
out the PMT article or the one on Cupertino Village. Even the Raging Waters article talks about it some. To sum
it up, I've realized I don't have a lot of experience with girls or with other
ethnicities. I notice them, but I don't know a whole lot about them. Maybe
they're not real (if what Baudrillard says is true, then they are probably not
real or at least becoming less and less so). In any case, I have even tried to
talk about Haraway in terms of Baudrillard: I still
don't get why those fat Indian girls dressed up as Sailor Moon characters.
That's it. Back to my world:
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