On a Sydney sound stage an actor hangs from wires while a hundred and twenty still cameras fire in sequence. The most famous shot in a film about a computed world is itself computed, down to a rooftop George Borshukov assembled from photographs. Meanwhile the real machines of 1999 fetched pages and searched chess positions, a French philosopher declined the compliment, and a metaphor about two pills got away from its authors.
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- In this chapter
- Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, John Gaeta, Paul Debevec, George Borshukov, Eadweard Muybridge, Jean Baudrillard