Hi guys, just knocking some ideas together and seeing what sparks about Cronenberg's remake of The Fly for what will hopefully be a conference paper. I recently read a shooting script of the film in which the protagonist, Seth Brundle, describes the process of teleportation. He says:
BRUNDLE: It felt like stutter. Nothing major, just a slight dislocation of my physical life. I thought I was in the same pod. I thought it didn't work.
Now I'm no poststructuralist, but I think there's something quite important going on here with iterability, right? The teleporter effectively breaks the experimental subject down into data (or phonemes) and then uses that data to reincorporate it at the other end. However, with organic tissue, Brundle notes that something always gets lost in translation. The secondary context always introduces impurities into the coherence of the parent signal. Something "stutters" and the meaning goes awry. The human gets deferred. I know there's something in this, but I'm not that well versed in deconstruction to make something of it. Any pointers to some helpful texts would be useful. Ta! |
