Comic or literature? Both?

Reading "Filth" I am interested in why the writers chose to do this piece in a comic book setting. Ultimately I think it is because comic books are thought of, to me at least, as something that children and kids read or grow up with. By turning this into an adult version of a comic strip it adds to the already sarcasticness of the overall piece. By having the pictures with the mini literature it creates a funny effect because everytime you flip to another chapter you see a random picture that you were not expecting. I think it would be much harder to create this same edgy, funny effect if it were to be written as just a literature piece rather then a combination of literature and comic strip.
Also the "super hero" in the comic strip is a very interesting character, I think it also adds to the humor. Its suprising becasue all of the superheros we watch or see have something to make us like them or enjoy rooting for them. They will be a genuine guy, a strong handsome guy, rich or just a good wholesome person, the superhero in "Filth" doesnt seem to have any of these characteristics. So, we as the audience just go along with it and dont even really know who we are rooting for or who we should or shouldnt like, and thats what makes this comic literature piece so interesting.

slow-fast

I was noticing in Ribofunk the way Fillipo wrote the book was very smart, in the way that he weens his audience into his made up fantasy world, the stories start out as just interesting and you slowly start to engage and understand the characters and their world. And then in every new chapter he adds more about the world Ribofunk is featured in. I think he does this so that the audience doesnt just get offended by this world and dismiss it. For example if he were to put the McGreggor story in the beginning of the book, or Streetlife in the beginning of the book I wouldnt understand his world at all, and I would probably want to dismiss it. This is why its different from "The Ti cket that Exploded" because it doesnt ween its audience into the world it just kicks us into it, unprepared and unready, which makes us in turn unaccepting to the fantasy world.
I cant help but to ask if our world will end up like Ribofunks world and if eventually we will get splices that are a certain percentage human, these splices are treated like slaves almost, I especially saw this in street life, and I think that the reason he went back to his master was because he knew nothing else, no other way of life. I think if we did have splices humans would end up mistreating them and abusing them, dominating them just like everything else in our world now.

The ticket that exploded ribofunk?

So, as I am reading further into Ribofunk I am noticing simularities between The Ticket that Exploded and this book especially with the "McGregor" story, its disturbing the way that McGregor treats the animal splices and how he literally raped the little mouse. In this 'disturbingness' I see simularities with "The Ticket that Exploded" although I cant tell if the McGregor story is less disturbing because Peter Rabbit and everone else knows its wrong and actually try to stop it or if it is more disturbing because its so wrong in peter rabbits world yet in "The Ticket that Exploded" it is seen as natural sex not rape or abuse, and it is accepted. So I am debating with myself which one should be more disturbing or is more disturbing, Ultimately I think that "The Ticket that Exploded" was more disgusting-like and this particular story was just disturbing.

I also like how alot of the stories are almost CSI or SVU like, its as if I'm watching a crime show on tv, but im reading it and their are a bunch of splices in the mix. Another point I'd like to make is that in McGregor they mention the Krazy Kat which was the basis of the story before "the Bad Splice," so these stories are starting to interlink with eachother, as I read on we are encountering more splices and more slavery and such with splices. And it is interesting to think that someday technolofy could advance to this and create versions of there own splices with a certain percentage human like in Ribofunk.

Ribofunky?

I am definately enjoying this book, I love being able to see into the other realms of the technologically advanced people. Even though alot of the ideas and new advancments seem far fetched it is not that unbelievable to put ourselves in their worlds. And I think the reason I like it so much is because it is another realm or universe but it is understandable and almost attainable, I definately can see our society meshing into a world that is simular to Ribofunks world.


My favoroite story so far has to be the second one with little worker, I think I enjoyed her character so much because we as readers were viewing her world through her eyes and because she seems so timid and loyal to her master, almost underestimated and mostly ignored. But at the end she ends up being able to take a stand and kick some ass, that part was almost shocking but also fulfilling. I was glad that she was able to do that because she seemed so incapable to being almost "monster" like with her 30% wolverine. But if she were to be monster like from the beginning I think it would have been easier to dislike her and just think of her as some slaughter machine who wants to have "her" master all to herself. Because the story was twisted into the way it was I ended up enjoying her character most of all and loving the wit that she put into everything

Answering questions

Downgrade the human for computers to take over? I think that as humans are developing a more technically advanced world it is very possible for the technologies to advance past humans and I think in that advancment humans will eventually downgrade. Or if your asking if humans have to downgrade for us to not be fascinated with the sidreal voyage, I think we definately do need to downgrade ourselves to be not so "on top" of things and in control as our society is. If this were possible we probably wouldnt have a deep pitted desire for the sidereal voyage.

Exoticism, Traveling and "intelligence"

'The Sidereal Voyage' in radical alterity discusses the theory of exoticism, the liking of something foreign like and different. The author meshes together alot of different worlds yet binds them together in the end to this exoticism. With the druggies, travelers and intermixing cultures they all have this fascination with having no 'real' control. At some point I think that all humans have a fascination with having no control, our society is so controled that we enjoy something different and almost 'not right,' to have no control. If our societies werent so controlled and were more chaotic would we have a fascination with this sidreal voyage?
In 'Artificial Stupidity or Intelligence' the author makes a good point with computers not being exactly like the human brain, like it has been compared to. Their is no feelings or emotions for the decisions made only calculations. "It is abstract without abstraction, formal but without knowledge of forms. Its power comes from the absense of reality that also makes it weak." This is why computers should not rule our world in the end unless we build them to have feelings with their calculations to be more like the human brain, then their would be no weakness. But in the end is this possible? And how would it effect our world? Would their be a need for humans?