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Death Star terror, Sith secret police and the Banality of Evil: How the writing of Hannah Arendt explains the evil of the Galactic Empire

  • 10th September 2024
Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars The Return of the Jedi

The Galactic Empire in Star Wars is an oppressive state that tramples on the freedom of its citizens to preserve its power. However, there are many types of oppressive states, from those that existed in…

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Alastair JR Ball
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The politics of Dune come from our past and not our future

  • 26th October 2021
Dune

Frank Herbert’s novel Dune is inherently political. The book is so clearly laced with politics that a meme has appeared in Dune fandom mocking those who deny that it is a work of political fiction….

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Osmosis shows technology cannot fix our flawed humanity

  • 17th August 2021
Osmosis TV show

Would you put a chip in your brain to find true love? This either romantic or dystopian question is the premise of Netflix’s French sci-fi thriller Osmosis. The show is set in the eponymous tech…

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25 years of my love for Mission: Impossible

  • 5th July 2021
Mission: Impossible 25 years

On an episode of the Moderate Fantasy Violence podcast, I described Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible films as “the little franchise that could,” alluding to the streak in the British character that always roots for the…

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We Are The Wave shows the pitfalls of doing politics online

  • 14th May 2021
We Are The Wave

The youth are revolting. Gone are the apathetic proto-hipsters of my youth, where the lamest thing you could be was someone who cared about shit. Young people today have embraced politics, from Extinction Rebellion to…

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His House uses horror tropes to help us empathies with refugees

  • 1st March 2021
His House

His House is that rare thing: a horror movie that takes a well-worn trope and does something original with it. In this case, it’s the trope of the haunted house, updated for our modern age…

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The TV show of Brave New World doesn’t capture our fear of the future like the book did

  • 30th November 2020
Brave New World

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a seminal science fiction novel. It’s one of the go-to texts of the dystopian sci-fi sub-genre and is often reached for as a metaphor for totalitarian societies that…

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The biospherians of Spaceship Earth tried to live in space so we don’t have to

  • 29th August 2020
Spaceship Earth film

A bizarre and largely forgotten piece of history occurred in the Arizona desert in the early 1990s. At the time, it was international news, but the memories of this event haven’t lasted along with Tamagotchis,…

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Does Doctor Who have an optimistic vision of the future?

  • 9th April 2020
The Doctor and companions

Are you feeling worried about the present? It’s rubbish right now, isn’t it? We can’t go outside because a killer virus is on the loose. We’re trapped and powerless to do anything about it. This…

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The film Alien shows that in the future there will be shit jobs

  • 4th December 2019

Alien is one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It slowly and suspensefully builds to moments of sheer terror. The first act of the film is an uneventful character study of people working in…

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