Although it has acquired a new identity, it retains its original programming: to "collect all data possible" and to "transmit its information" to its maker, which it mistakenly "believes. Unbeknownst to earth, several hundred years after its launch, Voyager has evolved into "a life form of its own, a conscious, living entity," Spock (Leonard Nimoy) says, and for that reason it is at first unrecognizable when it returns to the solar system "looking for its creator." Having been rebuilt and sent "on its journey back" home by "a machine-planet" it has encountered, the satellite calls itself VGER, its abbreviated name marking the loss of its memory concerning those who constructed it. Robert Wise, US, 1979) concerns the uncanny reappearance of humankind's long lost technological offspring, the Voyager satellite. Jacques Derrida, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" Cosmic Beginning, Heterosexual Begetting, and Star Trek's Primal Scene I employ these words, I admit, with a glance toward the business of childbearing-but also with a glance toward those who, in a company from which I do not exclude myself, turn their eyes away in the face of the as yet unnameable which is proclaiming itself and which can do so, as is necessary whenever a birth is in the offing, only under the species of the non-species, in the formless, mute, infant, and terrifying form of monstrosity. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology Here there is a sort of question, call it historical, of which we are only glimpsing today the conception, the formation, the gestation, the labor. It is that which breaks absolutely with constituted normality and can only be proclaimed, presented, as a sort of monstrosity. The future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger.
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