This groundbreaking book uses observations made by Marshall McLuhan to analyze the aesthetics
of science fiction films treating them as visual metaphors or probes into the new reality
dominated by electronic media: - it considers the relations between the senses and sensuality
in Blade Runner the visually-tactile character of the film and the status of replicants as
humanity¿s new clothes - it analyzes the mixture of Eastern and Western aesthetics in Star
Wars analyzing Darth Vader as a combination of the literate and the tribal mindset - it
discusses the failure of visual society presented in the Terminator and Alien franchises the
rekindling of horror vacui tribalism and the desire to obliterate the past as a result of the
simultaneity of the acoustic space - finally the book discusses the Matrix trilogy and Avatar
as being deeply related in terms of the growing importance of tactility easternization
tribalization as well as connectivity and the implosion of human civilization.
