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The First Dystopia
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is a novel written at the beginning of the future.
It’s hard to remember today, after Logan’s Run, The Handmaid’s Tale and Hu…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Terminator 2 isn’t only the greatest action movie
Terminator is an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie
Arnold’s physique is the star of the film
The progressive decay of the Body into the Machine is his co-…
4 months ago
HG Wells vs Vladimir Lenin
The year is 1920.
The Empires of Europe have spent the last half decade blowing each other up with bombs, guns and heavy artillery.
As World War 1 …
4 months ago
A note for listeners of the Science Fiction podcast
We are in a war on podcasting.
Podcasts are one of the last survivors of Web1.0, the era that gave us cool things like Wikipedia and the Blogosphere…
4 months, 1 week ago
Project Hail Mary is a Male Pattern Fantasy
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley. You know it, don’t you?
You…
4 months, 1 week ago
How the Matrix reclaimed the Red Pill
The best way to understand the broken, crazed, indulgent filmography of the Wachowski’s is as a quest to make the Matrix movie the Matrix would neve…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Star Trek ain’t woke. It’s corporate.
“Capitalism could appropriate even the most radical ideas and return them safely in the form of harmless ideologies.”
Guy Debord
Let me take you b…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
America forgot that Judge Dredd is a *satire* of fascism
We like DREDD
We do. We all like DREDD.
Not the god awful Stallone attempt, which we’re not going to mention again.
Not even the original comic, eve…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
They want to make DUNE real
By now it’s a pretty old joke to note Donald Trump’s resemblance to Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in David Lynch’s 1984 DUNE movie.
Replace the oil spray…
7 months ago
Where did the future go?
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
Mark Fisher / Slavoj Zizek / Fredric Jameson
Where did the future go?
It…
7 months, 1 week ago