Mashups: Humanities and Conventional Language with Produced Future Imagery

After attempting to “mash-up” philosophers speaking with video imagery from produced future visions, I realized that the power that your mind has to fill in gaps and make connections is incredible. It made it possible for anything that even vaguely had a visual cue relating to the spoken dialog to be connected mentally. I wondered if the same thing would apply, or be stronger, if there was only a single image and one word, phrase, or quote.

This is a collection of Hollywood science fiction and corporate visions of the future combined with words relating to the humanities and other conventional language.

 

This is a collection of Hollywood science fiction and corporate visions of the future combined with quotes about the humanities.

I think what is most successful about these are the images with single words in which the connection is very clear, so that the irony or subtle strangeness comes across best. This is what I will continue to pursue with a greater variety of imagery, contrasting older, historical images with contemporary language, and more contemporary future vision images with conventional language.

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