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The box is so beautiful.

Speaking as an academic, I'll say that there is unfortunately too much pressure to invent new terms and concepts whole cloth rather than use already established ones. That's how you get citations and build your research profile. Unfortunately, this leads to a lot of underbaked theorizing.

"It's Bonapartism not fascism" - let me stop you right there...

Reading this profile broke my brain a bit when I read it last week. His concept of "hyperpolitics" is neither novel or interesting yet it's treated like it's this earth shattering insight.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

My only contribution to the Odyssey discourse is that some people (incl. Wilson) have been weirdly mean about John Leguizamo. Honestly baffled by the critiques of his characterization and performance as Eumaeus - he's one of the best parts of the film!

Ho boy. I do not think I could play Doom 64 on original hardware. Godspeed to you.

This guy thinks it's called Sid City

guys i'm getting word that the videogame industry primarily only cares about profit. very distraught to hear this for the first time.

Neuromancer, along with other early cyberpunk works, was a truly fun expansion of the ideas and themes started by the New Wave sf movement of the 60s, combined with punk aesthetics and a critique of the rising info. economy.

This is such a depressingly flat and antiseptic vision of Neuromancer. Cyberpunk as filtered through the App Store.

Whoa happy birthday Liz! Also happy to see the return of the smiling apple.

This reminded me that Microsoft paid around $40 million to market Halo 3.

A new beautiful six word story just dropped.

Why is this so accurate?

He tried to combine ideas from several of his previous docs into one and it gets very pear-shaped.

Enough. Make it stop.

Along the lines of what you wrote here I've seen right wing types come out of the woodwork to praise the 1997 Hallmark TV adaptation of the Odyssey with Armand Assante. They absolutely want something that looks like it was made for TV.

Saw it in 70mm last night and I'm so glad I did.