For the Negotiating the Future seminar, I’m in the workshop entitled “What is the future? The end of the present, a monster or just a metaphor?” The following is an attempt to synthesize our thoughts a bit.
Both of your pieces deal with how the future can be conceptualized as different from the present – not […]
By Steen | February 7, 2007
I can’t help feeling disappointed about Children of Men. I’d heard plenty of good things about it before I saw it. Not hype, but by people I know and whose taste is pretty similar to mine. Yet, the film just didn’t work for me.
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By Steen | December 15, 2006
Last Tuesday, I passed my PhD viva examination. It was a good day, the opponents were friendly and the atmosphere was good. The text of my presentation is provided here.
By Steen | December 4, 2006
Here’s another sf meme, this time it’s with movies instead of books. Other than that, I’ll follow the same rules as for the book meme:
Bold the ones you have seen, strike through the ones you saw and hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put a star* next to the ones you love.
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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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