Mad Science: Conclusions

Against the order or disorder around him the inventor struggles. Not accepted as part of society except in the instances where his abilities are useful, he works to subvert and sublimate the world, creating new, superior life to synthesize the human interaction he lacks. The analogous figure of the filmmaker, the architect of ephemeral time and space, creates temporary visions with which he or she struggles to recreate and reform the world. The power to create comes with the responsibility to use it appropriately and both figures: a filmmaker must learn from the fictional inventors who live as a testament to the caution necessary to deal with forces stronger than oneself.

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Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? New York: Del Ray; 2001

Images from course disk and scanned from Neumann