Tag Archives: Utopia

American Utopias

By Steen | November 4, 2008

One of the ways that American independent filmmaking distinguishes itself from its Hollywood counterpart, is in its relation to American culture. While Hollywood films are often seen as partaking in the hegemonic structure of the dominant American society, independent films typically represent an alternative. This alternative is not just found in aesthetic practice and different [...]

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Steven Lukes, The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat

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.

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Andrew Niccol, Gattaca

By Steen | March 28, 2006

Gattaca is an interesting film, taking well-known discussions and turning them into a [science fiction] world, yet also remains closely connected to the standard Hollywood melodrama. While the sf scenery is not just used as ‘window-dressing’, it does begin to fade into the background as the film progresses.

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Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future

By Steen | November 12, 2005

Fredric Jameson’s third installment in his projected six volume series The Poetics of Social Forms, this is also purported by Jameson to be the ‘last’ one, ie. volume six, though there still remains three more to be written (Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism and A Singular Modernity are the two previous ones). [...]

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