Random Nerd Rants

Category: Star Wars

  • Oppenheimer and Star Wars

    Oppenheimer and Star Wars

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    fmneto
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    For a long time now I have sustained that Star Wars is not science fiction – and indeed it isn’t. Based on the same criteria, neither is Oppenheimer a movie about science – at least, not explicitly. Science Fiction Science Fiction is a specific genre. Although it lacks an exact definition, it usually involved the…

  • Human-cyborg relations

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    fmneto
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    Anthony Daniels is in Brazil. I went to see him in a local book store:Taken with a cellphone camera, because everyone forgot their cameras. Now I am the proud owner of a signed copy of “The Hero With a Thousand Faces”, by Joseph Campbell.