I'd much rather be writing a recs list than a webliography

My brain is resisting the constraints of academia. Therefore, an alternative webliography of sorts, made up of transformative works. Not addressing any of the questions, but each related to something we've covered in the course at some point

The Robot Apocalypse
Unnatural selection. Warning: violence, spoilers and the robot apocalypse. A mashup of footage from Terminator, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Battlestar: Galactica and the writings of Charles Darwin. A vid I find really interesting, that looks at the human/machine relationship in terms of evolution - survival of the fittest is not survival of the strongest, but the most adaptable.

Seven Nation Army. Same warning applies. A more straightforward vid about the various human/machine wars we as audiences have witnessed, and the repetitive narrative of resilient humans standing tough in the face of the machine horde. Battlestar: Galactica, I, Robot, Dr Who, The Matrix, Terminator, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Transformers.

Fix you. Battlestar Galactica. If you're interested, but unfamiliar with the source, it helps to know that the compassionate-looking blonde woman (as opposed to the short-haired blonde woman with a cigar) is a human model cylon. The show is not a straightforward story of humanithttp://http://www.com//giandujay's creation turning on it, because there is definitely a lot of support for the reading that cylons have an equal claim to Earth, and that even if humans and machines go to war, both are portrayed as societies that are interdependent. This vid shows the cylon perspective to the conflict.

Programmable women: yay?
It Depends on What You Pay. Warning: potentially triggery. The show is Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, where "actives", also known as "dolls", get programmed with skills and personalities to the specifications of clients. They are people who have signed a contract, for a variety of reasons, to work for the Dollhouse for five years, and their own personality is stored during that time. This vid very strongly points out the lack of ongoing consent, which is something the show tends to gloss over in favour of the character arc of Echo, a doll who is becoming self-aware despite the constant mindwipes. It also shows the interaction of gender and technology - in this world, this amazing technology is primarily being used to fulfill the fantasies of white wealthy men, and the people enslaved by it are mostly women (and the mentally ill, portrayed as signing their contracts as a last resort because they're unable to cope in the real world).

Sweet Dreams. A similar Dollhouse vid, which highlights the potential for abuse built into the program, and the way that technology facilitates that abuse, loss of identity and loss of agency.

Celebrity skin
The fear. A meta vid that portrays an actor (Summer Glau) as a cyborg of sorts - not just because she tends to play programmable characters including a terminator, but because as an actor and dancer she is a slave to her directer and choreographer. Her performance is programmable, and her public identity is constructed.

Piece of me. Similarly themed meta vid, about Britney Spears. It's a vid made about the public ownership of celebrities, using one of her own songs to demonstrate the constructed narrative of an identity from images.