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SPOTLIGHT: Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (1961; 1970, Faber & Faber) & Andrei Tarkovsky (1972, Mosfilm)

April 28, 2025 Merri
Artificial Society
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Artificial Society II

March 28, 2025 Merri
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REVIEW: The MANIAC – Benjamin Labatut (Penguin, 2023)

February 22, 2025 Merri
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Art, Tolkien, and Consumer Media Part III: Art as Sub-Creation and Communication

January 21, 2025 Merri
Artificial Society
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society II

March 28, 2025 Merri
Tolkien art literature
BooksClassicCommentary

Art, Tolkien, and Consumer Media Part III: Art as Sub-Creation and Communication

January 21, 2025 Merri
AI NPC machine learning
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society

December 16, 2023 Merri
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ClassicCommentary

The Inverted Conspiracy Theory

August 7, 2021 Merri
Old Stuff
January 23, 2018 Merri

Women’s March 2018: The Sequel is DOA

Remember the Women’s March?  It was that thing that happened last year where about a half a million women descended

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Old Stuff
January 19, 2018 Merri

The Last Jedi is a Failure, Part 5 – The Mouse Is Hungry

This has been an overlong analysis, but now it finally pays off.  What was the purpose of this film?  Why

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Old Stuff
January 16, 2018 Merri

The Last Jedi is a Failure, Part 4 – The Moron with a Thousand Faces

George Lucas somewhat autistically based his original Star Wars storyline on a well-known piece of pop-critique by Joseph Campbell, with

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Old Stuff
January 12, 2018 Merri

The Last Jedi Is a Failure, Part 3 – The Return of Zutara Fanfiction

A dashing, psychologically unbalanced, absurdly talented villain begins spending time with a pretty, talented young girl with a savior complex. 

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Old Stuff
January 9, 2018 Merri

The Last Jedi is a Failure, Part 2 – Poe’s & Finn’s Un-Excellent Adventures

Read Part 1 of this analysis here.  This segment continues where we left off, diving right into the madness we’re

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Old Stuff
January 5, 2018 Merri

ANALYSIS: The Last Jedi, Failure, and How Not to Write a Story (Part 1 of 5)

There are plenty of things wrong with Star Wars: The Last Jedi.  If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly

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Old Stuff
October 17, 2017 Merri

You Want Complete Ownership Over Your Own Body? Join the Cult of Modernity Today!

The Enlightenment has been credited with many things, including a revolution in the conception of rights as they apply to

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Old Stuff
October 13, 2017 Merri

Blade Runner 2049 Is No More Sexist Than Feminism Has Asked It To Be

The world of Blade Runner asks a lot of its audience.  At once futuristic, abstract, and startlingly familiar, the newest

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Old StuffReviews
October 10, 2017 Merri

REVIEW: Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017)

If there’s only one time you want to make it to a movie theatre in 2017, it should be now. 

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Old Stuff
October 6, 2017 Merri

The Riddle of Steel: New York Times’ Edition!

Bret Stephens posted an amusing Op-Ed in the New York Times yesterday entitled “Repeal the Second Amendment”.  Bret Stephens, for

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