Savannah Mandel Tells Us How to Go to Space
President Kennedy ended his 1962 speech at Rice University, the one made famous by the line “We choose to go to the…
Science-fiction
Monkey See, Monkey Do: Planet of the Apes, Animalization and the Visual Politics of Occupation
By Emma Louise Backe When War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) concluded, Caesar had successfully led his people…
Power Over the Story is Power Over All: Dune and the Messiah Machine
What’s a Lisan Al-Gaib, and why should we care?
Book Review: Beyond colonial futures – Ethnofuturism and World Beyond: An Anthology of Papua New Guinean Speculative Fiction
By Christopher Marcatili McGavin, Kirsten (ed.). 2022. World Beyond: An anthology of Papua New Guinean Speculative Fiction. Sydney, Aus: Hibiscus…
SpaceX’s biggest rocket flies for the first time: But Do We Understand What This Actually Means?
What if we trained our imaginations to appreciate that the way for reaching the stars in a Starship i.e., attaining knowledge, unity and harmony, was not strictly technological but social and cultural as well? What if we recognised that technological and social innovation did not come from the apparent eureka moments (and individualised capital) of the elites but the accumulated wisdom and creativity of our species?
The Geek Anthropologist 