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    The Rowling affair: Our ignorance, narcissism, and neo-Stalinism reflected back at us

    JK Rowling is no TERF, no matter the neo-Stalinist cant being promoted by the Google-media-Wikipedia disinformation network.

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    The Mysterians: Yankee go home?

    Japanese Mysterians film likely carried an anti-imperialist, anti-American message under standard SF cliches of the era.

  • Jane Austen Festival

    Jane Austen: not ‘great literature’

    The novels of Jane Austen are not great literature for their naïve and narrow conception of the world, which approaches propaganda.

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    The Glass Key (1942)

    Stuart Heisler’s screen adaptation of Dashiell Hammet’s The Glass Key gives us a character study of the noir anti-hero as descended from Eve and the original sin.

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    Crossfire (1947)

    Edward Dmytryk’s 1947 Crossfire courageously attacks the bigotry of antisemitism and, more subtly, homophobia, on a shoestring budget but with outstanding performances.

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The Mysterians: Yankee go home?

27 January 2022 0
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The Glass Key (1942)

2 December 2021 0
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Crossfire (1947)

30 November 2021 0
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Citizen Kane (1941)

13 November 2021 0
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Laura 1944

23 October 2021 0

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  • Jane Austen Festival

    Jane Austen: not ‘great literature’

    12 December 2021 0
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    ‘As if’ is not ‘what is’

    13 January 2021 0
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    Typography reveals more than just words

    25 December 2020 0
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    What does Nietzsche say to us today?

    2 December 2020 0
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    Switzer’s critique of ABC exposes Australian right as neo-fascists

    5 March 2018 0
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    The Vietnam War (2017): I

    21 November 2017 0
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    Underworld USA: America unimagined

    24 December 2015 0

Ideas

Detail from Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Composition X (1939).

Notes on Appiah’s Lévi-Strauss

4 April 2021 0
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Remembering Google Plus: ‘ere, it’s bollocks, innit!

24 February 2021 0

Managing fear of change

22 January 2021 0
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The lens of insanity

19 January 2021 0

A primer on liberal democracy

14 January 2021 0

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