tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278009708992140259.post9147486578293306561..comments2019-11-18T06:53:52.326+08:00Comments on Something by Virtue of Nothing: Still I Had to Make a Startane pixestoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01750266230259761680noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278009708992140259.post-38410577187024174442013-12-04T03:35:25.306+08:002013-12-04T03:35:25.306+08:00I've never looked down on sci-fi, for it seems...I've never looked down on sci-fi, for it seems to deal with many social issues that other genres no longer touch. What a serious vision/hyperbole... <br />There's a book with an interesting thesis about the media gaze and the undesirable, called <i>Cannibal Cultures</i> by Deborah Root. ane pixestoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750266230259761680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278009708992140259.post-37707594328598094362013-12-04T01:35:23.576+08:002013-12-04T01:35:23.576+08:00The gigantizing of cities is dramatized as irreve...The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization" rel="nofollow">gigantizing</a> of cities is dramatized as irreversible in some sci-fi. One recurrent motif of recent film gives us the Earth as the ghettoized remnant that is left behind. The poor are there, the rest have moved on. Not a new idea - Asimov wrote of it decades ago (Caves of Steel). The implicit idea of commercial TV in the US is that the world of poor is enabled through this magic of media to gaze upon what it will not have, unless it wins American Idol. Tom Matrullohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11460789537848811061noreply@blogger.com