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Christoffer Boe, Allegro

By Steen | November 6, 2006

Christoffer Boe’s second film, Allegro also deals with love and the problems that sometimes follow. It is not a typical romance film - far from it - but instead attempts to tackle those well-known issues in a different, more abstract or symbolic style.

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Living the Alien: Afrofuturism

By Steen | July 18, 2006

In much the same way, people can use these narratives to understand themselves, particularly in opposition to a dominant culture in which they are not openly acknowledged. An example of this is the cultural movement of afrofuturism, exisiting primarily at the website afrofuturism.net and its corresponding Yahoo listserv, established by Alondra Nelson in 1998 (Nelson, [...]

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Constructing the Alien

By Steen | July 13, 2006

Employing the device of the alien has become a favoured tactic of many, but in 1972 it was an unusual move when semi-unknown musician David Bowie did it. Creating a concept album focussing on an alien visitor known as Ziggy Stardust, Bowie also took on the persona of this Ziggy Stardust conflating any sense of [...]

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Kathryn Kramer, A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space

By Steen | June 21, 2006

A piece from my dissertation, I’m briefly discussing representational issues in Kathryn Kramer’s A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space. I’m trying to establish its connection the the slipstream “movement” as Bruce Sterling began defining.

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Damien Broderick, Transrealist Fiction

By Steen | June 8, 2006

Broderick’s book investigates a new kind of writing first coined by Rudy Rucker to be ‘transrealism’. Rucker’s term was meant to save [science fiction] from itself, by adding a certain degree of literary quality and real-world connection to it. His manifesto was written in 1983 and he was soon gobbled up by the cyberpunks, yet [...]

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