Tag: Star Wars
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Stoner Bricolage
One key difference between A New Hope in 1977 and The Empire Strikes Back, and everything that’s followed since, is that we shifted from stoner bricolage to nerd control panels. In the ‘70s, the best sci-fi came from people who thought like collage artists and smelled like soldering irons. You had stoners with engineering degrees,…
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Andor
The Nocturne of Small Betrayals: Doing this now, probably because of early Andor withdrawal symptoms onset. Why Furst now? Because I’ve got maybe four episodes left of Andor Season Two, and then it’s back to the algorithmic sludge of prestige TV — safe, symmetrical, and so thoroughly test-screened it might as well be AI. I’m…
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Greenland Meme
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Aragorn, Paul and Luke
Aragorn is the archetype of feudal nostalgia, the Good King myth resurrected to keep the dream of divine right alive. A cipher for the eternal yearning for a fatherly hand on the sword and a just heart on the throne. In Aragorn, feudalism is psychedelic—his lineage the mystic bloodline that encodes the sacred geometry of…
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Star Wars/Deleuze Guattari
To speak of Star Wars themes and machines like into Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical concepts, we can draw on their ideas of assemblages, lines of flight, desiring machines, multiplicities, and the concept of the Body without Organs (BwO). The universe of Star Wars can be viewed through the lens of these dynamic forces and virtual…
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1977
The California sun beat down like a cracked egg, 1977. The air, thick with dust and desperation, hung heavy over the smog-choked sprawl of Los Angeles. A psychic miasma, a thirst that went deeper than the parched earth. The California sun, a bleached-out skull in a cloudless sky, beat down mercilessly. 1977. The land, parched…
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A New Hope
The Droids: C-3PO, a walking protocol droid, all prattle and etiquette, a parody of civilized discourse. R2-D2, the silent mechanic, a whirring id, spitting sparks and secrets. Two sides of the same coin, the machine and the message, forever intertwined. The embodiment of the Symbolic, the keeper of rules and etiquette. R2-D2, the Real, the…