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The non-human animal..

  • November 8, 2022

Just finished watching Jordan Peele’s brilliant Nope. I don’t do reviews much. I’m no good at them. But I will say that it wasn’t until I looked through my notes for a quote for this post that I realized how this is a movie about animals. That should have been obvious, but the nonobvious is how we think we must descend to them. Ah. I have some thoughts.

One thing is for sure, I will never not look suspiciously at a cloud.

Screenshot from Nope

The future is urban, apparently

  • November 5, 2022

One of my areas of interest is how science fiction movies do exposition. So I took a screenshot from Elysium just to save, though I’m only watching this for fun (it’s not on my exam list). I’ve seen it before.

I’m sure this isn’t new to anyone who hasn’t been paying attnetion, but so many dystopian visions of the future are just slight exaggerations of contemporary fear mongering about city livin’.

EVERYONE WILL LIVE IN A CITY, WILL YOU SURVIVE??!?!?!?! Weird.

The real trouble is rural, since I just heard a loud boom coming from the “new” neighbors. They like to make noise. Lots of ratatatatat or bang bang bang.

The Chaos Machine, by Max Fisher

  • October 30, 2022
  • October 31, 2022
his seems to be the most appropriate book to be reading right now. It, like any technology book, is dated already, but it's a worthwhile dive into the media that drives our thinking.

Cover of the book "The Chaos Machine" by Max Fisher
This seems to be the most appropriate book to be reading right now. It, like any technology book, is dated already, but it’s a worthwhile dive into the media that drives our thinking.