Tattoos have during the last few decades undergone a cultural transformation, from being a mark of deviance belonging to the lower social classes and something one should not “do to oneself”, to being relatively accepted in today’s society. This is not just as a passing fad, but also as representative of a broader change of […]
The masses are not a population, a society, but the multitude of passers-by. The revolutionary contingent attains its deal form not in the place of production, but in the street, where for a moment it stops being a cog in the technical machine and itself becomes a motor (machine of attack), in other words […]
By Steen | March 20, 2007
Over at Paradoxa, they are lining up for a special issue on Ursula Le Guin. I submitted the following abstract, and so we’ll see if enough contributors come in to make the issue go through.
Dreams hold a special significance in Ursula Le Guin’s works. Whether they function as premonitions, warnings or glimpses of the past, […]
By Steen | January 23, 2007
This is a book that I know I don’t fully understand, but it really doesn’t matter. The reason I don’t understand it, is the fact that it deals extensively with philosophy, primarily moral and political. This is a subject that I only have cursory knowledge of, but the novel is still fabulously funny.
By Steen | November 23, 2006
I came across this on the web:
“Below is a Science Fiction Book Club list most significant SF novels between 1953-2006. The meme part of this works like so: Bold the ones you have read, strike through the ones you read and hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put a star* next to […]
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