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Wow… Just… Wow.The world just lost a bona fide HIStorical figure in Micheal Jackson. A lot of traumas plagued him in the last two decades, I am nearly ashamed that I partook in a few jokes at his expense. A history of exploitation and abuse by his parents and the music industry most likely contributed to his later habits and neuroses. Having said that, and despite his introverted demeanor, he was a fighter to the end.
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io9 on Michael Jackson’ sci-fi life
Jackson was a post-human celebrity, and nowhere was this more obvious than in his video “Black or White” (also directed by Landis). Once again, Jackson turned to one of the greatest minds in science fiction to help with the video. He used the morphing software used by James Cameron for The Abyss and Terminator 2 to create a memorable and oft-copied scene where dozens of people’s faces morph into each other, streaming through different racial identities, ages, and genders with an uncanny ease.
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Michael Jackson’s late career was one of transformation. The changes to his identity are that of a prototypical transhuman. The ridicule he experienced underlined the anxieties that society has of transcending one’s nascent identity, in Michael’s case, race and gender. I has not been revealed yet what effect years of surgery had on his overall health. This is also an important question with transhuman implications.
Jackson was also a big fan of outer space.
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1958-2009
And the whole world has to answer right now just to tell me once again…
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