It is ironic that when Machover isn’t developing his opera he is working on communication tools with Dan Ellsey who is profoundly handicapped and is locked in a body with only a glowing light stick attached to his head for communication which he uses to point to his computer. With this tool he is able to compose and perform music which he did for the TED audience. So here is opera about downloading a person into a computer and in real life Tod is working on behalf of a man who he is up loading from a damaged body into life.
Can I beat him with a stick? Please? Because just reading that made me want to throw up a little in my mouth.
"Working on behalf of a man who he is uploading from a damaged body into life"
WTF, that is just all kinds of wrong. Like Dan Ellsey didn't have agency of his own. Jamis is so centered on the "damaged body" that he doesn't see the man beneath.
In fact it was about all those involved on stage, those back at home, others - who might dream about being freed from all sorts of limitations and even about me. It was a grand opera to see Dan enjoying his ability to perform for this group of interested people. So I have a new and much less judgmental view of this process.
Why, that's mighty white of you (or the equivalent) Mr. Man. Really, it is.
I wonder what would happen if someone sent him an invitation to this: Ever Widening Circle (http://www.wid.org/ever-widening-circle). But no, he probably wouldn't go because he'd be surrounded by the people he thinks so little of. I worked for WID for eight years and something tells me Mr. Jamis would be roundly mocked.
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Date: 2008-06-12 05:21 am (UTC)Can I beat him with a stick? Please? Because just reading that made me want to throw up a little in my mouth.
"Working on behalf of a man who he is uploading from a damaged body into life"
WTF, that is just all kinds of wrong. Like Dan Ellsey didn't have agency of his own. Jamis is so centered on the "damaged body" that he doesn't see the man beneath.
In fact it was about all those involved on stage, those back at home, others - who might dream about being freed from all sorts of limitations and even about me. It was a grand opera to see Dan enjoying his ability to perform for this group of interested people. So I have a new and much less judgmental view of this process.
Why, that's mighty white of you (or the equivalent) Mr. Man. Really, it is.
I wonder what would happen if someone sent him an invitation to this:
Ever Widening Circle (http://www.wid.org/ever-widening-circle). But no, he probably wouldn't go because he'd be surrounded by the people he thinks so little of. I worked for WID for eight years and something tells me Mr. Jamis would be roundly mocked.