THE ONLY GOOD GIRL IS A DEAD GIRL
digital goth moodboard
“[The] cyberspace is uncanny. […] Its scientific descriptions gel eerily with the terms of digital
gothic: it is a ‘space’ filled with lurking figures, voices without bodies, unstable identities, [...]
our relation to and awareness of cyberspace is characterized by [...] a pervasive sense of
apprehension, unease and uncanniness.”— Karen Macfarlane, Zombies and the viral web, 2018.
“[…] John Perry Barlow celebrates cyberspace as ‘the new home of the mind’, a world that ‘is
not where bodies live’. This world is exclusively called forth by technology, and is the diametrical
antithesis of nature. […] Should we really celebrate that, we ask ourselves not without panic? If
the tangible realities of space, time, and the body are no longer necessary for human identity,
what does define humanness? And ultimately, what will happen when technology acquires
agency and the golem comes to life?” — Isabella van Elferen, Dances With Spectres:
Theorizing the Cybergothic, 2017.
MISCELLANEOUS MEDIA
--- the biological turned mechanical / post-human evolution (ex. nine inch nails - the becoming, pinocchio 964 (1991), crash (1996), h.r. giger illustrations, the normal - tvod, etc.)
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Selected Curios #30 "The Birth of Venus, H. R. Giger, 1977"
--- the ambience of songs like digital bath by deftones and cold industrial / synth music / coldwave in general
--- serial experiments lain (1998) (obviously . . . we all love lain)
--- david cronenberg's entire filmography — i.e. eXistenZ & videodrome
--- the internet meets the spirit world / "techno-horror" films (ex. pulse (2001), dir. kiyoshi kurosawa and lake mungo (2008), dir. joel anderson)
--- mechanical body mutilation (see tetsuo: the iron man)
--- white noise
--- the journey radio station from gta iv
^^ this shit ^^
etc...
"Technology isn’t really effective, it doesn’t really expose its true meaning, I feel, until it has been incorporated into the human body. And most of it does, one way or another. Electronics. People wear glasses. They wear hearing aids that are really little computers. They wear pacemakers. They have their intestines modified. It’s really quite incredible what we’ve been able to do to the human body and really to take it some place that evolution on its own could not take it. Technology has really taken over evolution. We’ve seized control of evolution ourselves without really quite being conscious of it. It’s no longer the environment that affects changes in the human body, it’s our minds, it’s our concepts, our technology that are doing that."
-- D. Cronenberg