A collection of essays and aphorisms about the undead in recent fiction.
Tag: star trek
Snap Decisions: Thanos, Spock and the Needs of the Many
What if Earth was populated by Vulcans rather than Humans? Isn’t sustainability logical?
Captain Kirk Smashes Smartypants Computers
Kirk smashes all of these systems – a sort of humanistic not-this, not-that ritual declaring a kind of heroic autonomy for the human individual.
Runaway Train Civilization and Less Credible Futures
If left on this path, like a runaway train, like a dinosaur, it’s set on creating in the 21st Century, a new kind of dynastic capitalism which codifies an allowance for the excesses of the robber baron classes with the façade of democracy. We are near, or already in, Elysium, where only the wealthy have access to quality healthcare and can get into Jodie Foster’s cure-all chamber, and education, and where the games of the working class are their entertainment.
Elvis Holograms in the Desert
What strikes me about this is that mass media society has total domination of our cultural memory. We scarcely have any cultural memory from before film or television.
Reliving the Twentieth Century in HD
We no longer even have a vision of the future. Things that are futuristic too belong to the past – like Blade Runner, Tron, Robocop, the music of Vangelis, Wendy Carlos and Kraftwerk. Futurism is an activity of the past, and tragically spells out our inability to imagine our own future from a culture disjointed from cultural time.
A Fragile Dignity 