This week in class, we spoke about how fiction becomes reality and where the two can begin to mix in someone's life. One thing that stuck into my mind was when "Technology is desire" and from what i understood, it means whatever you want can be created with the technology we have today. I remember one article that Stanford is researching the virtual reality world to alter human beings and their interactions. The studies went as far as changing America's obesity epidemic or even the police line ups. Boston University is also using this technology as a way of therapy, in helping people through fears they face in reality.

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In class, this week, we spoke about Dadaism and Surrealism. I found both of these really nice styles of art and one artist in specific, Duchamp, where he would take everyday objects and take them out of the normal. One example of his work was a toilet, where he isolates the toilet and the speculators were to think about the object differently. What I wasn't too sure of was what makes a piece of art work an actual art piece. He would isolate an everyday object or put together two opposites, like a stool and a unicycle. For my personal opinion, an artist captures something appealing or paints an essence. Maybe its that he sees something in a toilet that we don't.

In the Manifesto Of Futurism, by F.T. Marinetti, there is a sentence which reads "...But we want no part of it, the past, we the young and the strong Futurists! ". The Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and cities; they embraced the exciting new world that was then upon them rather than hypocritically enjoying the modern world’s comforts while loudly denouncing the forces that made them possible. For someone to do something like that could never happen I believe. To forget the past is to forget how the world was brought together, where you stand now and how you were brought into this world. In his manifesto, the eighth number states " Why should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the impossible? " I believe to break the ' mysterious doors of the impossible' we need to first learn from the past and take what we know and improved on that. If we forget the past all we are doing is starting over.

During class the topic Guys with Dolls was discussed, then the question" why don't you see women with dolls". The final conclusion was that women need real affection. Breaking it down,I feel most guys with dolls are afraid of commitment and don't want to commit to affection. They are satisfied with one way affection their whole life, so much that the guy in a documentary said he wants to be buried with his dolls.