Ghost in the Shell

I just finished watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. It was very good, maybe anime is the only place to really find non-written thoughtful sci-fi anymore. I wonder why that is, I don’t think television or movies will ever be nearly as good as written science fiction, but it certainly can be better than it is. Anyway, here is an interesting poem referenced in the show that led me to look it up a little more.

I am the camera’s eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forever free of human immobility. I am in perpetual movement. I approach and draw away from things—I crawl under them—I climb on them—I am on the head of a galloping horse—I burst at full speed into a crowd—I run before running soldiers—I throw myself down with the aeroplanes—I fall and I fly at one with the bodies falling or rising through the air.

—Dziga Vertov, 1918 .
published in Mayakovsky’s LET Magazine

The link above is to the writer’s wikipedia article.