Monthly Archives: May 2005

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

By Steen | May 31, 2005

I’ve just finished Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and it’s a wonderful book. It has a very unusual premise for Ishiguro, who has so far mostly written family/ethnic dramas (such as The Remains of the Day) but here he does something unusual. He writes a novel with a science fiction premise. Of course, the [...]

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Alternate histories, sf and mainstream

By Steen | May 30, 2005

Karen Hellekson’s work The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time is an interesting take on the subgenre of sf known perhaps more often as alternative history. Hellekson proceeds from a historical framework, though one which is more indebted to Hayden White and Paul Ricoeur than more classical historical theory. Working from the basic assumption that the [...]

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Shane Carruth, Primer

By Steen | May 28, 2005

A strange and haunting film about friends, trust and time travel, the film revolves around two scientists who are in a group of like-minded people trying to invent the next big thing. They cooperate toward this common goal, but one of them suddenly stumbles on something unusual and with just one of the other scientists, [...]

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George Lucas, Star Wars: Revenge of the Clones

By Steen | May 23, 2005

Well, now the new trilogy is over and there will never be another Star Wars film ever again. Unless, of course, Lucas suddenly decides he wants to make more money.
Before seeing RotS I was actually quite happy with his decision not to make any more, I mean, no reason to completely spoil the pleasure of [...]

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Jacques Derrida, ‘Force and Signification’

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In this essay, Derrida reads Jean Rousset’s Forme et Signification and does it to reveal the folly of structuralist analysis, critiquing the emphasis on form. Often, Derrida is quite forceful in his critique “the structuralist consciousness is a catastrophic consciousness” (4). His harshest criticism at the beginning of his essay is the ahistoricity of structuralism, [...]

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