As a naturally talkative person, I realised within the first five minutes of Ghost in the Shell, that live-tweeting was for me. I’ve always been a fan of Sci-Fi texts and having a licence to brain-dump to a receptive audience has been a super fun experience.
Tweets in week one revolved around the themes of Feminism and racial dynamics in Ghost in the Shell and took me back to my travels in Japan where I experienced first had the co-existence of the traditional and the hyper-cyber (that’s a word now). Evidentally, my fellow classmates picked-up on these themes as well:
A common theme throughout the texts we have watched is that of the human identity. We kicked off the “What makes one human” debate quite quickly:
Week 2 started with a *bang* as we found ourselves in Westworld, still thinking about what defines a human, and considering the ethical and…
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