I’ve seen Star Wars so many times that sometimes my mind glosses over its deeper themes. Like how the story is inherently antifascist. It’s easy to point to Andor as when Star Wars got radical, but all that fighting authoritarianism, the crackdowns on personal freedoms, and what would motivate a bystander to join a rebellion… Continue reading Antifascist Star Wars
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Unilateral Drone Strikes and The Winter Soldier
The Winter Soldier has a lot going on. There’s the spy thriller trope of the one good agent not knowing who he can trust (and the others not knowing if they can trust him). There’s the actual Winter Soldier, Steve Roger’s path made manifest. And of course, there’s the fact that SHIELD has been infiltrated… Continue reading Unilateral Drone Strikes and The Winter Soldier
Star Wars as an Anti-Capitalist Discourse
Oh you thought I was kidding? Here we go. Star Wars takes a lot of cues from Westerns. Characters like Han Solo and places like Mos Eisley’s cantina make it pretty obvious. But it’s also apparent in where it takes place: the fringes of society. Be they remote planets desert or frozen, these stories take… Continue reading Star Wars as an Anti-Capitalist Discourse
Zombieland: A Treatise on Life in a Post-Consumer Society
I mentioned it as a joke last week, but this week we’re going for it. I’m so sorry. Zombies have long been used as a means to comment on the perils of consumerism. Mindless hordes doing things without thinking for the few capable of independent thought to stand up against. Zombieland takes the conceit one… Continue reading Zombieland: A Treatise on Life in a Post-Consumer Society
Essays, Not Rants! 