The Asphalt Jungle
The least understood aspect of the human psyche is the ego.
Josh Glenn is a pioneering, Boston-based consulting semiotician. He is cofounder of Semiovox, editor of the hermeneutic blog HiLoBrow, founding editor of MIT Press's Radium Age Science Fiction series, and co-author or co-editor of The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the family activities guide Unbored, among other books. In the ’90s, Josh published the zine/journal Hermenaut; in the 2000s, he was a Boston Globe staffer and columnist.
The least understood aspect of the human psyche is the ego.
Psychedelic revelations about the artificial nature of reality.
Bodies will be stacked together on battlefields like so much cordwood.
What are the implicit assumptions (or “mythologies”) we’ve absorbed?
Shedding inhibitions, going a little wild, having good stories to tell.
The moment at which the Anti-Anti-Utopian Generation grows up.
Pure Hitchcock: tragic and comic at precisely the same instant.
Half-wild denizens of “la zone” on the outskirts of a large town.
Sexy, thrilling, and — thanks to the sandwiches — very British indeed.
Viewers never question Deckard’s humanity… except, perhaps, during this scene.
In the existential jungle, empathy makes a man fitter for survival. But at what price?
In life, as in baseball, things can always get better. Or worse.