The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"Our job is: life, the universe, and everything."
Science Fiction
Semiotics of/in science fiction novels, movies, anime, comics…
The Matrix
"Culture is the software of the mind."
Le Garage Hermétique
Call this sort of thing: narrative kintsugi — i.e., breaking, then making visible repairs to one's story.
The Giver
"The themes we find can feel fleeting and unsteady — until we name them."
Pattern Recognition
She has no way of knowing how she knows.
Babel-17
You must feel the research with instinct, intuition, and empathy.
Vurt
We journey to unfamiliar and sometimes quite strange conceptual spaces.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
"Versions of the Blue Fairy connote everything from faith to desire, dream, destination…"
Arrival
As she shifts languages she shifts worlds, perspectives and motivations…
Back to Utopia
Can the antidote to neoliberal triumphalism be found in science fiction?
District 9
He’s a prawn trapped in a net.
Virus X
A meme that has propagated from one pulp genre to another…
Wild in the Streets
Shelley Winters struggles to close the generation gap.
Blade Runner
Viewers never question Deckard’s humanity… except, perhaps, during this scene.