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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Why opposing abortion means excusing rape
A friend of a friend of mine was date raped last winter. I have never met her, and I do not know her name, but what I gather happened is this: She went on a date with a boy to … Continue reading
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Tagged Brief Reflections on 2012, gender, reproductive rights, USA
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Men and women in the Golden Land: P.T. Anderson’s historical vision of Los Angeles
It seemed easy to peg Paul Thomas Anderson following Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch-Drunk Love, as well as his more obscure debut, Hard Eight. They were all about pathetic characters suffering of self-consciousness, self-pity, guilt, and ineptitude within an infinite … Continue reading
Brief Reflections on “A Brief History of the Future”
The ideas I began to work with in A Brief History of the Future have in some ways sharpened for me since I wrote it in 2009; in other ways, they have become more obfuscated and confusing. My intention in … Continue reading
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Tagged colonialism, science fiction, space travel, Star Trek, utopia
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A Brief History of the Future: Reflections on the Death of Space Travel
NASA will launch a mission in 2009 called Kepler to monitor nearly 200,000 stars for the shadows of planets the size of Earth. Let’s say we find dozens or hundreds of Earths, or even thousands, as some astronomers predict. What … Continue reading
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