Category Archives: Group 6
Traveling Dunk Tank 2011-11-22 13:02:08
Imagine you are Amanda Bates: “I don’t know the reason yet why I woke before the others. Something to do with instinct I guess.” You are somewhat privy to being undead. Something about the immortality is enticing. So, from your coffin you emerged. An eerie silence lies in the cabin of Theseus. Maybe it was […]
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The moment of first Blindsight from the view of Bates
pg. 159 in the kindle version PG. 159 The view of Bates during that first mission into Rorshach “Another spike, ” I warned as tesla and Sieverts surged on my HUD. “Hang on.” This place was not only giving me … Continue reading → Continue reading
Re-writing “Blindsight”
Siri’s…my other half’s…my story began with Robert Paglino. I sure wish those few TwenCen relics (God bless them) who still held to the notion that humankind was not to be tampered with had intervened for me when my parents decided … Continue reading →
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Death Of A Soldier
Once I understood that Theseus was going to be overrun by Scramblers, I realized that I was going to be dead. Again. I had no time to process, not now — the defensive bots were awaiting thoughts. Protect the cabin’s integrity, first priority. Once we were breached — and we would be breached, the numbers […] Continue reading
Is it Live or is it Freedom?
I am finding it easier to focus after walking a bit inside Rorschach. I felt dizzy coming in at first, but I didn’t want it to stop me from the task at hand. Everything looked good so far. No warning signals on the HUD or from the grunts. As long as the team stayed focused, […] Continue reading
More Heart Than Brains
Sometimes electrical stimulation of the brain induces “alien hand syndrome”– the involuntary movement of the body against the will of the “person” allegedly in control. Other times it provokes equally involuntary movements, which subjects nonetheless insist they “chose” to perform despite overwhelming empirical evidence to the contrary. Blindsight by Peter Watts, Charybdis I choose the […]
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“How do you say We come in peace when the very words are an act of war?” (Watts 325)
“How do you say We come in peace when the very words are an act of war?” (Watts 325) I chose this specific sentence from Blindsight because it seemed to symbolize every single instance of miscommunication or misunderstanding between cultures of which I had ever heard. It’s Kennedy’s jelly doughnut in Germany and Nixon’s peace […] Continue reading
Necessary Transformations
“‘If you don’t retrain you’re obsolete inside a month, and then you’re not much good for anything except Heaven or dictation.’” (Pg. 254) This sentence illustrates the dilemma with which humanity is faced in Peter Watts’ bleak picture of the … Continue reading →
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Evocation: Rottendo Citricus!
We would bleed from our eyes and mouths and assholes, and if any God was merciful we would die before splitting open like rotten fruit. (Blindsight 173) The above line isn’t the most important in the story, but it was … Continue reading → Continue reading
A Compelling Sentence on The Question of Agency
“She was an abstraction in an abstraction: an impossible intersection of dozens of bright panes, as if the disassembled tiles of a stained-glass window had each been set aglow and animated”. Blindsight, Pg. 142 After reading some of Part II in the book Blindsight, I found that the most compelling sentence in the book […] Continue reading