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Does it matter that the Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin is a work of propaganda? I think it does. But it's going to take 2 hours to explain.
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Published 04/07/24
Dune is the Star Wars killer - https://youtu.be/JPOsoph3TCY
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Published 03/10/24
00:00:57 Introduction
00:03:39 Professor Elana Gomel
00:09:55 Charles Dickens as scifi writer
00:14:17 Stanislaw Lem and The Other
00:18:59 Anti-Humanism
00:22:46 Lem vs the SFWA
00:26:27 Beyond Humanism
00:28:12 LEM and Posthumanism
00:33:37 Fear of the Posthuman
00:38:00 Lem's criticism of non-existant novels
00:40:41 Lem on AI
00:47:08 Philosophy of Posthumanism
00:51:02 Monster Fantasies
00:54:47 Dangerous...
Published 02/26/24
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Published 02/14/24
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:50 Is Iain McGilchrist a scifi fan?
00:07:05 Iain McGilchrist's work and philosophy
00:17:34 Reason vs Rationalisation
00:22:30 Kubrick's 2001 and the hemispheres
00:27:14 Why do we take everything literally now?
00:34:41 The myths that form us
00:43:22 How do we reconnect to the mythos?
00:49:36 Campbell, Jung and the synthetic mythos
00:55:27 Creativity and the hemispheres
01:03:27 Is the right...
Published 01/22/24
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Published 12/27/23
Olga Yakimenko is a filmmaker who sometimes answers questions in the Science Fiction community https://www.facebook.com/groups/324897304599197/
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Published 12/16/23
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Published 11/11/23
Watch J G Ballard's Towering Inferno
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Music 'Sensula' by Ralph Cree https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree/sensula
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
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Published 11/01/23
PS - man with midlands accent is Alan Moore
There is an ancient English ritual, performed in the grey and rainy times (which is the entire year save 2 weeks in July), when the tribes people gather around a glowing screen and politely pretend that whoever is playing Doctor Who is a great actor.
They never are. But it's not their job to be. The Who actor's singular task is to depict a very particular kind of eccentric Englishness (or, now and again, Scottishness), in an ever so slightly new...
Published 10/20/23
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Published 10/11/23
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Published 09/17/23
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Published 09/03/23
Read Flight of the Siren by Brendan Myers https://amzn.to/453bTKZ
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Published 08/11/23
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Published 08/06/23
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Published 08/03/23
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Published 07/31/23
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Published 07/28/23
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Published 07/24/23
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Published 07/17/23
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Published 07/16/23
00:00 An improvement?
03:16 4 shameful decisions
06:52 91% exposition
09:47 5 excuses DISMISSED
11:44 Asimov's high concepts - The Mule, Foundation & Psychohistory
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Published 07/14/23
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Published 07/12/23
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Published 06/29/23