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Assessment 3 Final Essay Question What is the relationship between technology, recognition and the optic? Analyse a text of your choice (Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon) in a flair that demonstrates your understanding of the connections between bodies, technologies and ocular reproduction. Josephine Polutea, Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon (2011) The relationship between technology, wisdom and the optical I believe is that they all interconnect with each former(a). The technological invention of the lithographic device for lawsuit enabled numerous visual reproductions for magazines and countersignpapers.This then opened up the door to the revolutionary technological shift in visual reproduction from lithography to photography that enabled replications to cater for the masses. This ability to produce multiple copies of any one film came about with the revolutionary development of the negative. (Lecture 5 / Technologies of the optical Reproduction, 2011) This is evident in the icon Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon where the use of the images and footage from the Apollo 11, Lunar Landing ar used to encapsulate the viewer to depict and empathise with the historical event that is used as a spectacle in the movie. cognizance wise this was a breakthrough in all history of mankind although there is speculation and scepticism that the event in fact never took place (Lecture 5 / Visuality, History, Event Spectacle, 2011) in an effort to gain capital for reenforcement of the NASA space program approximately estimated at thirty billion dollars. (Lecture 14 / Visuality, History, Event Spectacle, 2011). On the turnaround this is problematic in any evidence documented in history for history although makes for a adept story line in a movie about technology, science and the bodies involved in this visual reproduction of the historical event.As this event spectacle was used in the movie as the rump of the visual narrative which was what I gathered to be that the Am erican government discovered an unidentified butt that crashed on the daydreams surface and the professorships reaction to send the astronauts to the moon as he quotes in the movie You get there before the Russians and Well you tell NASA to move heaven and earth. Gives the impression that Mr president is very patriotic and based on actions speak louder than words?There is a sense of spurring where one would assume that there was a conspiracy to cover up a top riddle mission to discover if there really were any alien life forms present on the moon or to cover up discoveries of much(prenominal) encounters. A reason of state would account for the manipulation of such evidence to enforce the protecting public morality, educating the population, looking after interior(a) interests and promoting community values. (Schirato, Webb 2007, p 174).The news medias job is to report the facts clearly, with as much accuracy as possible. Unfortunately this isnt the case. Science and reason are a good arsenal to hasten in the battle against pseudoscience, but in most cases they feature a back seat to history and tradition. Plait (2002) These technological experiments and discoveries speak from the investigations of science and other certain unexplained issues for example extra-terrestrial, the supernatural or the unexplained other unidentified spry objects or mechanical cosmoss.The images of an alien life form are visual reproduction of a circulated urban myth so to speak alternatively there are no actual scientific evidential to substantiate claims from victims of the so called alien abductions or alien encounters. The descriptions given are used to form this visual that an alien has a big coned head, with big black oddly shaped eyes, a mouth and no nose but seem to be smaller in height then an average person.The greatest influence over visual practices in the contemporary Western world are what we call normalisation, which is associated with the field of science , bureaucracy and government, and capitalism. (Schirato and Webb 2004) So why is it, that in the movies they look familiarly tall and strong and awfully unseductive? Or those in Transformers that are referred to as aliens? The other bodies I will refer to the transforming robots in the movie Transformers and the government bodies that are directly involved in this highly classified special operations caper and the proponent role they play in the movie.According to Schirato and Webb (2004) scientific categories of truth and reality are circulated passim popular culture, particularly in the media. This is the main reason why we have used the term normalising rather than scientific to designate this particular visual regime. The movie begins with the notion of a race soon to be extinct by war. In an opening statement that says, We were once a peaceful race of healthy mechanical beings, but then came the war. A war between the Autobots and Dicepticons on their planet called Cybert ron.This mechanical being or what post-modernist film directors would call aliens freely roam the universe and eventually undertake refuge on planet Earth. This concept of machine life and human life co-existing and living in combat injuryony is reinforced in the movie as a political opportunism point of view. For instance their alliance with the autobots to divine service and protect America and the world from breach of national and international security. Optimus Prime quotes In a category since our arrival, our new home Earth has seen much change. Energon detectors guard its cities now. Long range defense systems watch the skies. So now we assist our allies in solving human conflicts, to prevent mankind bringing harm to itself. The normalisation of scientific revolution and bureaucratic power only serves a purpose that politically we as a society, a community we dont really have a say in what happens but only that we are shaped and influenced to conform to what we should be ex pected to behave, believe or savor towards a certain situation.This brings to surface the subjectivity that we are familiar with in our everyday lives. For example if we are pulled over by a policeman for a random breath test or for exceptional the speed limit we autonomously adjust our attitudes and stature to address the officer because we know that the body or other serves a purpose to the law and its people and therefore the power relationship is automatically referenced to the officer.This power relationship between the bureaucracy and the people is displayed in the movie when Sam is attacked by laser beak, a side kick of Megatron and escapes in his efforts to assist the autobots before the decepticons take over the world. He is confronted by managing director of National Intelligence Miriam who questions Coronel Lenick. I know his name, I wanna know who gave him clearance? and later argues we cannot entrust national security to teenagers unless I missed the policy papers, are we doing that? I didnt think so.As Schriato and Webb explains (2004) when a soldier saw something that signified a superior officer (a particular uniform, stripes), he was necessary to behave, quite automatically, in a submissive manner. Similarly, the idea was that when the population saw signs of states ascendance (buildings, functionaries in uniforms, titles, letter-heads) they would see, without questioning or hesitation, something that was greater, more powerful and more knowledgeable than themselves, and adjust their behaviour to observe with these manifest signs of the state.In the movie these signs are visible especially in reference to the government bodies, President and the Pentagon Bureaucratic and Political Division, NASA Science Division, and the National Security Intelligence Defence Division & Department of health & Human Services which is signified as a body that serves a purpose to the people although take authority from the government, science, and def ence divisions. As global cultural flow of images are circulated through the public media subject field and as such the Lunar Landing were celebrated through the United States and the world as a great historical accomplishment.We are conformed to believe this is true because we generally believe that seeing is believing and that the images provided we take as photographic truth. The mechanical nature of image-producing systems such as photography and film, and the electronic nature of image-making systems such as television, computer graphics, and digital images, bear the legacy of positivist concepts of science (Lecture 6 / Technologies of Visual Reproduction, 2001). Plait (2004) states that people confuse the far side with the dark side.You almost never hear the idiomatic expression far side of the moon. Its always dark side of the moon. This phrase isnt really wrong but it is inaccurate. If movies were the only purveyors of scientific inaccuracies, there would hardly be a prob lem. after all its their job to peddle fantasy. In conclusion the connections between science and technology is a relationship between the global media sphere and the reason of state that governs all scientific, bureaucratic, political and capitalist field that form and shape our views of how we perceive the world we live in.Therefore my understanding is that science and technology have a strong relationship in the realm of the visual regimes and there connections to our world views of government bodies, scientific technologies and the shift in technological visual reproductions. The reference list Plait, P C 2004, Bad astronomy Misconceptions and Misuse Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing Hoax John Wiley & Sons Inc. , New York.Schirato, T & Webb, J 2004, cultivation the Visual, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest. CLT120, Vision, Visuality and fooling Life, Lecture 5 Technologies of the Visual Reproduction, Macquarie University, 2011. CLT120, Vision, Visuality and Everyday Life, Lecture 6 The Myth of the Photographic Real, Macquarie University, 2011. CLT120, Vision, Visuality and Everyday Life, Lecture 14 Visuality, History, Event Spectacle, Macquarie University, 2011