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Who are the Fascists Now?
Late to the party, but I recently caught up with The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu, a show with which I have a love/hate relationship. To be honest, the first season felt somewhat interesting and original. By season two I was starting to entertain this niggle, an idea that perhaps this bit of media that looked…
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Westworld: Having Your Cake, Eating Your Cake, Letting Them Eat Cake, A Cakewalk, Cake.
As of this writing, season 4 of HBO’s Westworld is over, and we await word as to whether season 5, reputed to be the show’s last, will be green-lit. Spoilers ahead: Given that the season ends with the deaths of (nearly) all main characters, not to mention the entire human/augmented human race(s), the idea that…
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Why Modernism?
Have you heard of this book, Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism? As I start putting pen to paper on the dissertation, I find myself needing a deep reading of this iconic text. It grounds my notion of “futurity,” and since the diss is about character and time/place in sci-fi, I suppose I…
Signs of Life 