Christopher Minz
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Further continuation: Christopher Minz (Georgia State University
Much like the coding that undergirds the basis of the robotic AI hosts in Westworld, there is a further encoded totality that props up the aesthetic of the Western myth that makes Westworld possible, or even a viable visual signifier at all. Fredric James ... -
Further continuation
Today’s post is part of a larger conversation between Carol Vernallis (Stanford), other scholars (noted above and below), and myself. It constitutes an attempted collaborative working through of the particulars of how Westworld advances various threads of ... -
colonization and otherness
This is a stimulating and exciting post! What I find most compelling is how the concept of otherness seems to maintain its central point even in this modern re-envisioning of the Western aesthetic. What does it mean for the other to be re-situated from th ... -
The original post here was
The original post here was revised and posted below in more apt form. The living scholarship goes on! ... -
Interesting but I wonder...
I think this is a really fascinating topic. And I think that you are correct that this aspect of mourning has become a proper thematic element of Daniel Craig's Bond, which have seemed needlessly joyless to me. A few things to perhaps consider: Does ...