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• Stephen King's 'Monkey's Paw' update a real shocker
  ...orror, with the motif brought to a kind of logical conclusion (reductio ad finem) in BATTLETRUCK.[HTTP://WWW.CLOCKWORKS2.ORG/WIKI/INDEX.PHP?TITLE=WARLORDS_O
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• 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (film)
  ...hat ''2001'' was the culmination and initial deconstruction (''reductio ad finem'') of a basic masculinist myth of SF.
  1,013 bytes (154 words) - 21:25, 4 September 2022
• South Park: "Let Go, Let Gov"
  ...] are satirically literalized and pushed to a grotesque end (''reductio ad finem''), combined with an image of the comically horrific superimposition of res
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• Futurama: "Proposition Infinity"
  ...absurdity of woman-on-robot sex and marriage (reductio ad finem, reductio ad absurdum). Also satirized are attempts to "straighten" gays when Bender is
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• A Modest Genius
  See for what Y. Zamyatin might label a ''reductio ad finem''[https://www.scribd.com/document/36393142/Yevgeny-Zamyatin-We] of what we'
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• DEADPOOL 2
  ...n the eye, hinting at a high-tech prosthesis). Note also the ''reductio ad finem'' (for now) of the [[WARLORDS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY / BATTLETRUCK|bat
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• Exit Strategy
  ...ertising in ''Exit Strategy'', which can be seen as both the ''reductio ad finem'' of Satire (pushing a trend to a grotesque conclusion) or science-fictiona
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• Darwin Among the Machines
  ...w.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=reductio+ad+finem&go=Go] — pushing a trend to a grotesque conclusion — but with Vonnegut'
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• ANIARA (film 2018/2019)
  ...''Aniara'' itself: a "ship of fools" on a vast scale, for a ''reductio ad finem'' of tour vessels in the early 21st century and a kind of [[Cities in Fligh
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• QualityLand
  ...ically add, the standard satiric move that Y. Zamyatin called "reductio ad finem": extrapolating to the limit, and often the grotesque.
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• Futurama: THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS
  ...e population," for what we'll note is an nicely done satiric ''reductio ad finem'' — pushing to the grotesque here — of the theme of control in Robert A
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