The thing is, and it’s puzzling why few admit this, that if the audience gets the ending they are anticipating, they’re always disappointed.
Tag: star wars
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.
Uhura at the Back of the Enterprise: Star Trekism and the Backlash Against Post-Racial Utopianism
Folklore in human history was really an oral tradition, some of it making its way into poetry and literature. In our time, our folklore comes basically from popular culture, but it still serves the cultural […]
The Dark Side Awakens: The Eternal Recurrence of Reactionary Societies in Star Wars
As a moviegoer last year I was equally parts dismayed and underwhelmed by Star Wars: The Force Awakens. (Hold on, fans, there will be something for you here…) The uber-hype-fest that drew the culture to the theaters […]
A Fragile Dignity 