Posts tagged mythology
Cancer with the Stars: On the Space Western, the Alien Series, and Gothic Marxism

The Space Western I described above is a fantasy for libertarians; Alien is a nightmare for socialists. The horror here is that Late Capitalism slipped the surly bonds of Earth and is spreading throughout space, consuming everything it touches.

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Which Grain Will Grow, and Which Will Not: On Syntax, Paradigm, and Myth

I think that narratives are important to understand for the same reason that I write about postmodernism so much: as chaotic and unpredictable as the world-at-large can be, we have to remember that the human brain is the most advanced pattern-recognition organ on the planet. We look at the world and we find stories and then we share those stories. If you look at how we talk about memory, then that’s a story to, and in a very real sense, it means that each and every one of us is made out of narrative in a very real way.

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