{"id":4245,"date":"2017-04-09T05:09:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T05:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2017-04-11T18:00:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T18:00:39","slug":"robert-stark-pilleater-richard-wolstencroft-discuss-ghost-in-a-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=4245","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark, Pilleater, & Richard Wolstencroft discuss Ghost in a Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark,\u00a0co-host\u00a0Pilleater<\/a>, and director\u00a0Richard Wolstencroft<\/a>\u00a0discuss the new film Ghost in a Shell based on the 1995 anime.<\/p>\n

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How it compares to the original film
\nThe plot and characters
\nThe film’s aesthetics, 1980’s retro-futurism, holograms, and cyberpunk
\nThe synth soundtrack
\nThe Robot Geisha scene
\nThe fictional \u00a0futuristic Asian city filmed in Hong Kong
\nRichard Wolstencroft’s experience in Hong Kong and observations on Asian culture
\nComparisons to the films Akira and Blade Runner, and William Gibson’s\u00a0Neuromancer<\/a>
\nThe\u00a0Anime Right <\/a>
\nThe “white washing” controversy about a White actress playing an Asian role
\nScarlet Johansson
\nTakeshi Kitano
\nThemes of Trans-humanism and Cybernetics
\nRay Kurzweil’s Wildest Prediction: Nanobots Will Plug Our Brains Into the Web<\/a>
\nThe Philosophy of Mind, \u200eGilbert Ryle’s<\/a>\u00a0Ghost in the machine<\/a>, and\u00a0Arthur Koestler’s\u00a0Ghost in the machine<\/a>
\nHubert Dreyfus’s views on artificial intelligence<\/a>\u00a0influenced by Martin Heidegger
\nPolitical messages in the film
\n“Ghost in a Shell” as a metaphor for the rootless atomized society where people lack any real identity
\nRichard’s upcoming film The Second Coming Volume II<\/p>\n

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                Robert Stark, co-host Pilleater, and director Richard Wolstencroft discuss the new film Ghost in a Shell based on the 1995 anime. Topics: How it compares to the original film The plot and characters The film’s aesthetics, 1980’s retro-futurism, holograms, and cyberpunk The synth soundtrack The Robot Geisha scene The fictional  futuristic … Continue reading Robert Stark, Pilleater, & Richard Wolstencroft discuss Ghost in a Shell<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572,542,740,195,760,746,623,669,922,324,598,198,429,554,459,795,601,428,548,931,404,932,343,348,720,140,202,721,169,737,172,86,694,688,933,654,603,18,747,744,469,516,695,750,573],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-aesthetics","category-akira","category-alternative-right","category-animation","category-anime","category-architecture","category-asia","category-asian-aryanism","category-asian-culture","category-blade-runner","category-china","category-cinema","category-cities","category-culture","category-cyberpunk","category-dystopia","category-film","category-futurism","category-ghost-in-a-shell","category-globalization","category-hong-kong","category-liberalism","category-martin-heidegger","category-mishima-a-life-in-four-chapters","category-music","category-nationalism","category-paul-schrader","category-philosophy","category-pilleater","category-political-correctness","category-psychology","category-retro-futurism","category-richard-wolstencroft","category-scarlet-johansson","category-science","category-science-fiction","category-sexuality","category-synthwave","category-technology","category-transhumanism","category-travel","category-vaporwave","category-william-gibson","category-yukio-mishima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4245"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4280,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions\/4280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}