We Make the Gods We Want to Have
What does it mean for a telescope to be showing us the past 13 billion years? What are we looking for out there?
Posts Tagged 'Colonialism'
Book Review: Archaeogaming and the Wide Wonderful World of Archaeology in Video Games
By Alissa Whitmore Reinhard, Andrew (2018) Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games. New York: Berghahn Books….
Meet Your Makers: First Contact Scenarios in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
By Emma Louise Backe Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012) was an epic, existential prologue to Alien (1979) over twenty years in…
Anthropologists: Ethnographic Heroes? Marie-Pierre’s response
My colleague Rayna presents us with interesting observations on the representations of anthropologists in science-fiction: in her opinion, they are…
What I wish I could unlearn from Star Trek TNG / 2: The Prime Directive, or conserving cultures like a lab sample
At first glance, the Prime Directive looks like an astonishing and humble moral posture: humans admit that they don’t know everything. They should mind their own business instead of imposing their views on others. They should respect the laws, cultures and values of others. They should not interfere with aliens whose development is under a certain level and allow them to develop naturally.
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