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A drawn interpretation of T'Gatoi and Gan from Bloodchild found on Twitter. Easily the most interesting, intimate, and horrifying image I have seen this year.
See the tweet here: https://twitter.com/pinpoms/status/844924502521843712
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"It is basically a love story. There are many different kinds of love in it: family love, physical love . . . The alien needs the boy for procreation, and she makes it easier on him by showing him affection and earning his in return. After all, she is going to have her children with him." (Butler, 1996)
Taken from an interview with Stephen W. Potts in 1996
"She simply came in, climbed into one of her special couches, and called me over to keep her warm" (Butler, 1).
From "Biotechnological tools to enhance sustainable livestock production” by Minal Garg (2022)
"Back when the Tlic saw us as not much more than convenient, big, warm-blooded animals, they could pen several of us together, male and female, and feed us only eggs. That way they could be sure of getting another generation of us no matter how we tried to hold out" (Butler 1995, 5).
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, ...
"Bloodchild" reminded me of a book I read over the summer, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I do not want to give too much away, but I see lots of parallels between these stories, as in both there is a higher authority that is preserving these special people, like on the Preserve or at this special boarding school, to be used for a special purpose later in life that really only benefits this higher authority.
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"As glitch feminists, we inject our positive irregularities into these systems as errata, activating new architecture through these malfunctions, seeking out and celebrating the slipperiness of gender in our weird and wild wander" (18). — Glitch Feminism
Art by Wangechi Mutu
"In Two Canoe” (2022) by Wangechi Mutu
“Oooooh . . . The earth is alien. Our mothers are sick. The world has shrunk and is choking us” (Baraka 2001).
Can an algorithm help with existential angst?
Some of the latest progress in Artificial Intelligence is "Artificial Emotional Intelligence." This is "Technology [that] is prevalent in a broad way to learn, think, and act like human intelligence...Artificial emotional intelligence is a subset of artificial intelligence which refers to recollecting, recognizing and reacting to human emotions (Erol et al., 2020)."
There have been critiques leveled at applications for this technology like therapy chatbots, but this opinion piece had surprisingly positive things to say about WoeBot.
"After the growth of deep learning algorithms and neural network ap- proaches, emotion recognition captures high accuracy and better effi- ciency and inspires different perspectives in researchers. The major emotion recognition applications could be identifying attackers, potential criminals, or theft to prevent a crime. In the future, we are expecting large-scale testing of emotional reaction capture by facial, Speech, and text-based advanced machine learning algorithms and multi-layer schemes with high recognition accuracy rates for each sector of emotion recognition" (17).
However, this opinion piece does describe the—admittedly sometimes useful—gamification of mental health, and thus facilitating the use of programs to treat mental health issues. What is rather worrying is that to improve the algorithm it often needs real life data, and the mass collection of personal interactions between people and therapy bots, even with consent, has troubling implications when it comes to privacy violations and Skynet-level "crime fighting" oppression.
