Ex Machina Film Report #5

Ex Machina was grounded on the principle Man vs Machine. This movie is astounding. Ava who was created as Artificial Intelligence by Ethan was a "created machine with consciousness" . Ava was able to have impersonations of a real life human being in which she expressed feeling, emotion, and affection through dancing. Ava's appearance was humanlike and she experienced humanlike feelings and emotions. What truly touched me was despite her creation and formation of how she came to be, her development was just like human persons. Its compelling to even think about artificial persons walking among us today indistinctively.

I find it very compelling to consider questions such as: Do Machines have feelings? Can they ever be equal or should they be treated as equals, with the same morals and ethics we treat human-like peoples? What constitutes a human being? With the real life advances in technology within artificial intelligence people find it difficult to analyze and distinguish the difference between humanism and non humanism. The idea that something we create, that some see as nothing more than what a cellular device or even a lamp would be, and elevate it past that to 'true life' makes many uncomfortable and on edge.   In my opinion, despite its creation and originator, if t has the ability to function like and consciously and ethically be engaged in society. Then, that is what constitutes a human.

21st Century Rhetoric for Radicals

The Rhetoric of Contemporary Activism involves social movements, political cultures, and even small groups of activists exhibit rhetorical commonalities. The ten Contemporary Activisms include: anti-authoritarian, diversity, multi-historical, idealistic and prefigurative, anti-representational, visionary, symbolically powerful, and self righteous and self critical. The rhetorical gap means to make adjustments. That way, the audience can quickly glean and understand the information in addition to taking responsibility and reflecting on continuous observations. The network of rhetoric is basically a wheel of influence that warrants extended discussions. This includes public movements or networking through publications and social networking sites. A new form of activism includes expressing your desires and successfully activating them through social networking sites. A personal example could be thinking of a business that could be beneficial to self and others within the community. Then, creating a website and publications to further explain the mission and promote the business.

Five examples of Neo Radicalism involves creating a proposal. The conditions however are anti-authoritarian activism, activists communication, communication and reality, western philosophy, and visionary. I personally adapt to visionary for references of having a vision and being motivated to create it.

Cultivating Styles

The four types of body rhetoric are embodied argumentation, street theatre, rhetorical style, and the vibe as bodily emanation. All of these components amplify the way we communicate and embrace one another face to face through interpersonal communication. Although each body of rhetoric has its own function, rhetorical style, in its unique way  describes the overall look and feel of communicative gestures. There are three types of body argumentation which include body, your message, and your audience. For instance, speakers use their bodies to further communicate their messages while adapting to the wants, needs, and expectations of the audience. Because we are all different and express ourselves either culturally or based on sexual orientation, we all have different ways of cultivating styles of body language. Five steps to cultivating style are observation, reflection, application, chance, and experimentation.

Individual body argument can be used to express a singular emotion while collective can be used to express many emotions non verbally. 

GROUP MEMBER

1) What is your definition of language, and do you think it connects with the media, to grow an influence?

2) Their are five guidelines to language and communication. What are those 5 guidelines and does our generation follows these guidelines? How and why?

3) "War is peace; Freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength" a quote from the book 1984, What is this quote telling the people in this novel? In what way is language on social media influencing us like the language did in Orwell's 1984?

4) How is the media and the world influenced through propaganda?