Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist

Blog and text archive about media theory, science fiction theory, future design, social choreography, Computer Science 2.0, new media art, robots and androids, Star Trek, The Prisoner, Jean Baudrillard, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Marshall McLuhan

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“Amok Time”

October 22nd, 2010 in Category: Cyborg Spock, The Original Series

"T'Pring, parted from me and never parted, never and always, touching and touched, we meet at the appointed place." "Spock, parted from me and never parted, never and always, touching and touched, I await you." "What thee are about to see comes down from the Time of the Beginning, without change." says T'Pau.
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“Spock’s Brain” (Star Trek: The Original Series) and “Forbidden Planet” (film)

April 14th, 2010 in Category: Cyborg Spock, The Original Series

The seminal Original Series episodes about Mr. Spock deal subtly with the tension between Spock as an emblem of first-wave cybernetics (Norbert Wiener's command and control in objects of bio-power-knowledge, treated as information systems by the logos) and Spock as potentially subversive male cyborg.
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“The Devil in the Dark”

April 14th, 2010 in Category: Cyborg Spock, The Original Series

Spock begins to demonstrate his unusual capabilities of empathy towards alien others in his mind meld encounter with the silicon-based Horta life-form on the mining planet Janus VI.
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“This Side of Paradise”

April 14th, 2010 in Category: Cyborg Spock, The Original Series

What the resourceful plant biologist has perceived is that Spock may not wish to conclusively reject his human side. So far in his personal development, he is lacking a language to express himself and his unnamed cyborg existence.