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• Heretics of Dune
  ...emales linked "to giant metal containers" by "a maze of dark tubes" (435). Caution: HoD uses consciously "the dangerous female" motif. See under Literary Crit
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• Mann and Machine (television series)
  ...the team, but must mature emotionally. Cf. and contrast MAKING MR. RIGHT. Caution: Contains material offensive to the 4th Amendment and other parts of the Am
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• DR. NO
  ...effect that is both techno-thriller and a send-up of the techno-thriller. CAUTION: Described in the "Timeout" section of ''The Cincinnati Post'' for 16 Nov.
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• SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION
  ...g of takeover of people's minds by their user-friendly personal computers. CAUTION: Some sex and sexism.
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• Bergsonian Comedy and the Human Machines in 'Star Wars'
  ...ouble reversal—a machine acting like a person acting like a machine" (8). (Caution: Someone associated with ''Film Criticism'' consistently changed LR's "anti
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• THE FLY (1986)
  ...inefantastique'' 16 (July 1986): 15 f. See this Category, [[VIDEODROME]]. (Caution: Cronenberg's THE FLY can be rough going for people figuratively weak of st
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• Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
  ..., reptilian, and maybe snake-like (although that may be an Alienoid tail). CAUTION: US MPAA rating of PG-13 is justified by clearly-heard taboo words, some po
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• Out in the Blue Six
  ...l, self-contained cities going into space (326; "Out on the Blue Six …"). (CAUTION: Readers who like their prose lean may find long stretches of ''OBS'' too o
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• Mindstar Rising
  ...t one other character are mediated by artificial glands implanted in them. CAUTION: Some sex, more Bolshy-bashing, Royan's mutilation, and one scene of bone c
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• Metropolis (novel)
  ...erved by the men of the masses, whom the machines devour (as in the film). Caution: The owner of the Metropolitan exotic-drug and whore house is negatively ch
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• The General
  ...RA Review'' #210, March/April 1994: 88, our source here and whom we quote. CAUTION: Satorius warns of explicit violence and racism. (RDE, 01/01/95){{DEFAULTSO
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• Psychodrome
  ...visions of the misuse of technology by Authority were somewhat optimistic. Caution: This book needs an additional draft, among other things clarifying how we
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• A BOY AND HIS DOG
  ...nd by L. G. Heldreth in the articles cited for them under Drama Criticism. CAUTION: A notable feminist critic asserted in the presence of the main compiler of
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• JUDGE DREDD
  ...5 (August 1995). See under Graphics, J. Newsinger, "The Dredd Phenomenon." CAUTION: The happy ending has a police state not as bad as it might be but remainin
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• Pinker, Steven, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
  ...éne_(mechanism:_cosmological_,_biological)]] and works cross-listed there. CAUTION: See references in backmatter of ''TBS'' for absence of citations to the wo
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• The Cyberpapacy: The Sourcebook of Virtual Reality
  ...if one fails to be careful implanting cybernetic devices into one's body. Caution: The ''Sourcebook'' is impeccably antiFascist; we're less sure of the game
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• CLOCKWORK GIRL, THE by O'Reilly and Hanna
  ..." from Greek ''dendron'' 'tree']). See also for mildly threatening robots. CAUTION: Less of a kids book than it may look and probably isn't suitable for young
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• THE LAST SAMURAI
  ...nd Imperial Japanese armies of the time (howitzers, rifles, Gatling guns). CAUTION: For a more balanced view of the costs of the samurai system to non-samurai
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• LOGAN
  CAUTION: The "R" rating is appropriate; this is an excellent film for young adults
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• Little Brother
  CAUTION: The DHS thugs are less brutal than Orwell's Thought Police, and the world
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• Ready Player One (novel)
  ...uch rule out his doing much of anything else. This might be reassuring for CAUTION (2): If you suspect the young person answering your requests for technical
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• COLOSSAL (2016)
  Caution: When citing, use the release date or other information to avoid confusion
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• FearDotCom
  ...omestic and cybernetic environment of a PC (Personal Computer) interface. CAUTION: ''Cinefantastique'' photos and comments on IMDb indicate grisly onscreen m
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• CHICKEN LITTLE (movie)
  ...child (larval?) form—of creatures like Troll dolls, but with three eyes. CAUTION: The SF parts may be too scary for young children, and the film is arguably
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• Gravity's Rainbow (essay)
  ...vey of cyberpunk for "intermediary" and advanced students of the subject. CAUTION: Written in an anti-postmodern version of what has been called in 19th-c. l
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• The Wondersmith
  ..." from its socket (Hoppenstand 19)—cf. ''[[Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey]]''. Caution: Includes some antisemitism and "senseless violence" (Hoppenstand 17, 21).
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• Virtual reality sex is coming — and the toys are already here
  '''CAUTION: The article bears the warning that "The following post contains sexually g
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• The Rowan
  ...ic destruction of the planetoid is done by men in gestalt with generators. CAUTION: The novel is strongly pro-natalist and rather bellicose. (RDE, 27/06/94){{
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• THE ISLAND (film)
  ...its successors (all save FRANKENSTEIN listed under Fiction and/or Drama). CAUTION: Americans who cannot or do not distinguish among zygotes, embryos, fetuses
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• HER (film)
  ...tp://funguerilla.com/the-most-beautiful-robots-anyone-would-like-to-date/].CAUTION: If “We need to talk about our relationship” is your idea of the seven
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• JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS
  ...carnival rides and colorfully contrast with the ships of the evil aliens. CAUTION (or ATTRACTION, depending on parental politics): The film teaches children
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• WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005)
  ...cited under Fiction, for epitome of the motif of a mechanized underworld). CAUTION: The literally patriarchal implications of the film would be tolerable if i
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• The City Who Fought
  ...und impressive" (cover notes). Cf. and contrast Newt in [[ALIENS (film)]]. CAUTION: Casual readers may see ''CWF'' endorsing xenocide of the dark-skinned Koln
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• REAL STEEL
  ...cent John Connor with the Schwarzeneger Terminator in TERMINATOR 2 (1991). CAUTION: The film may be a wee bit gratuitously xenophobic and, for all its explici
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• STEALTH
  ...and Industrial than the somewhat more Modernist planes with human pilots. CAUTION: The film is a prime example of "[W'm H.] Hardesty's Law" that carrier warf
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• Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or The Longest Shots on Record
  ...from the secret service of his country for bad conduct" (211-12; ch. 25). CAUTION: Koku, Tom's "giant servant" (73; ch. 9) and "Eradicate Sampson, the aged c
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• TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE
  ...emains important for the justification of the US-British invasion of Iraq. CAUTION: This is a gross movie even by Parker and Stone standards, and it contains
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• MAN OF STEEL (Superman 2013)
  CAUTION: The climactic battles of MAN OF STEEL have been attacked as "disaster porn
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• Bots: A Love Story and a Dream
  Caution: There's masochism in this story of a realistic sort, not pornographic role
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• DISTRICT 9
  ...ex alien equipment without rigorous instruction, cf. [[INDEPENDENCE DAY]]. CAUTION:
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• DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX
  ...SF and most fans of cyberpunk SF films, but they will be new to the kids. CAUTION: The film has a hopeful ending, and the subversion is gentle and good for c
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• INDEPENDENCE DAY
  ...from coverage of ''ID'' in ''Cinefantastique'' 28.1 [Aug. 1996]: 14-15.) CAUTION: ''ID'' is an exercise in pastiche, intentionally following old formulas as
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• ROBOT WARS
  ...is a mechanical scorpion, complete with deadly tail (with a laser canon). Caution: The film contains vestiges of a shrew-taming motif and more than vestiges
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• AVATAR
  ...ts — fire is more a Terran thing — but very much including their earth; so CAUTION: the film is participating in a lot of cultural and political battles, incl ...Joe] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)] For a final note of caution: Andrew Gordon and Hernan Vera argue for AVATAR as a White racist messiah f
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• EVIL DEAD
  CAUTION: EVIL DEAD is a very gory film; it comes across as misogynist, except (as r
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• STARGATE
  ...al cut preview by Tim Prokop, ''Cinefantastique'' 25.5 (Nov. 1994): 46-47; CAUTION: the film TP describes is not exactly the release version in Nov. 1994.
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• THE BICENTENNIAL MAN (1999 film)
  ...ata in ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (for an inevitable comparison). CAUTION: Removal of the problematic racial allegory leaves a sentimental appeal but
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• CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
  ...ely recreated. Cf. and contrast [[SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW]]. CAUTION: The violence is pretty bloodless, and violence imaged without horrible con
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• Johnny Mnemonic (story)
  ...yager, 2003. At least for a while, available on line at Project.Cyberpunk (CAUTION: This may be a pirated edition.)[http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/johnny_mne
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• Triumphant Technology and Minimal Man
  ...the Alien, and why the ''Nostromo'' would have a self-destruct mechanism. Caution: The essays is both ingenious and overly brief in interpreting the burial i
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• PLEASANTVILLE
  ...oblematic ideals and a 1950s family-values TV show as an image of eutopia. CAUTION: Sex is complex but valued in PLEASANTVILLE, including solo sex by a mother
  2 KB (275 words) - 14:40, 31 December 2014
• VIDEODROME
  ...this film the Word may become flesh, and flesh become all sorts of things. CAUTION: A highly important film, but not suitable for children or sensitive adults
  2 KB (290 words) - 21:01, 22 June 2022
• The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
  CAUTION: The Wilson review misspells "Csicsery" in "Csicsery-Ronay"; Erlich has cop
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• THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
  ...LXG and reality in our universe set up as a warning for us in the 21st c. CAUTION: Perhaps less so in the novel, the film incorporates attitudes wherein only
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• Three Hundred Years Hence
  CAUTION: Pierce notes, "Australasia no longer includes any Asiatic peoples – they
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• Terminal Constructedness and the Technology of the Self
  ...g his role as star of a "bio-pic" to become the hero in a romantic comedy. CAUTION: Some proofreading problems aside, this is an excellent essay in the late-2
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• The Airlords of Han
  ...or double-meaning lines relating war and sex (from a male point of view). CAUTION: As Kalish et al. demonstrate, the revised versions remove the "Yellow Peri
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• CLOUDY, WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (2013)
  ...portal, which can help demonstrate the ubiquity of that concept and image. CAUTION: Though otherwise a most excellent doper movie, especially as family films
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• KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
  Caution: The film's drug-war politics are too convoluted, contradictory, perverse a
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• Mama, We Are Zhena, Your Son
  CAUTION: "Zhena includes the death of a dog, also of Moscow.
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• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3
  As with Volume 2, CAUTION: The film suffers from the four O's of the Major Movie Event!: over-finance
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• Heath, Joseph, and Andrew Potter, The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed
  ...(sic). See in this Category citations for J. Ellul, H. Marcuse, T. Roszak. CAUTION: Heath and Potter don't supply original publication dates when they cite re
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• I, ROBOT (film)
  ...rdly courageous, on issues of robot personhood, rights, and rebellion (but CAUTION: ''I, Robot'' may be a bit sexist on gender of proper revolutionary leaders
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• Tomorrowland Never Dies
  ...very important for Modernism vs. postmodernism as styles and world-views. CAUTION: Except insofar as “The child is father to the man,” the Bruce Willis c
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• ROBOTS
  ...achines That Rage Against Other Machines," New York Times, 11 March 2005). CAUTION: If you see the outmoded robots as street people, or the poor (as Peter Har
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• PASSENGERS
  CAUTION: The habitually astute film critic Richard Roeper finds the premise and "pa
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• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
  CAUTION: The film suffers from the four O's: over-financed, over-produced, over-lon
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• JUSTICE LEAGUE (animated film)
  ...nes, and all things associated with them are amorphous and High Modernist. CAUTION: Parents might want to tell kids viewing the show that advocating nuclear d
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• Killer Robots Are Not a Fantasy
  MINOR CAUTION: The article repeats the phrase "existential threat," and, as we quote abov
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• THE HULK
  CAUTION: HULK presents a memorable instance of "recovered memory" where the remembe
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• CHICKEN RUN
  ...s, two roosters, and a couple of rats who steal tools but don't use them. CAUTION: It is possible to see the pie machine as less an allusion to 'METROPOLIS a
  2 KB (395 words) - 00:37, 3 January 2015
• ELYSIUM (2013)
  ...n and the dystopic vision ca. 1971 and literally post-Modern(ist) visions. CAUTION: Consult your local Marxist and expert opinion on population issues before
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• AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
  ...destroyed Industrial landscapes and at least four memorable images (minor caution: The fourth can be a "spoiler" for issues of plot)..
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• Murdoch Mysteries
  Caution: People easily annoyed by what might be called ''un''-steady steadicam shoo
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• ISLE OF DOGS
  MILD CAUTION: ''Variety'' review linked above comments: "A scattily joined subplot cente
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• MOONFALL
  Caution of a sort: As with many apocalyptic disaster films, there's the ethical iss
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• REPLICAS
  Note for a mild caution: REPLICAS may be unpleasant for audience members upset by implausibilities
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• My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts
  Small caution: On p. 519 we get the right idea of word as thing and/or deed in mythic thi
  3 KB (483 words) - 19:16, 4 November 2022
• Orange Glory: The Zoomins Must Die
  Caution: Kate Twillinger gets seriously roughed up in what look like preparations f
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• TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES
  ...VE: OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB|DR. STRANGELOVE]]. CAUTION: About all that remains of the insightful commentary on masculinity and mac
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• MARS NEEDS MOMS
  ...politics of the film are somewhere between problematic and really bad, so CAUTION. Into its first week of release, '''MNM''' appears to be a major money-lose
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• BLADE RUNNER 2049
  CAUTION: The film suffers seriously from what has been called "Pinocchio Complex" o
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• THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS
  ...virtual life isn't so bad after all—if one has a real choice to leave it. CAUTION: Perhaps as part of an anti-po-mo theme (making explicit the sources of muc
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• Software
  ...ately embedded in the hardware of the body and would need to be extracted. Caution for sensitive readers: "extracted" in this context may be quite literal. Al
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• AVALON (2001)
  CAUTION: The "Alternative Versions" entry on IMDb notes translation issues in the R
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• Space War Blues
  NOTE/CAUTION: In one section of the fixup, Lupoff experiments in a moderate way with gen
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• Sex in the Machine
  ...tion, "11001001"|11001001]]" — cf. and contrast [[WEIRD SCIENCE]] (p. 17). CAUTION: This article may mislead on the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "The Forsa
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• Eclipse Corona
  ...].'' The limited mind-meld is reported in some detail in sexual contexts. (CAUTION: There's nothing in ''Eclipse Corona'' that would get an upload thrown off
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• Master Mechanics and Wicked Wizards
  ...bove and that conclusion, he makes some negative observations, including a caution on Allen's reading of ''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]'' a
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• Nexus Trilogy
  CAUTION: As noted, the maltreatment of children, including torture and at least met
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• Trouble and Her Friends
  {For a brainworm-mediated sex scene, see pp. 236 f. Spoiler alert, Caution, and Discussion Opportunity: One of the participants in the sex scene is un
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• The Stanley Kubrick Archives
  ...erome Agel's ''[[The Making of Kubrick's 2001]]'' (1970), here pp. 467-71 (caution: Kubrick is not the final authority on Kubrick, and A. C. Clarke has his ow
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• Amusing Ourselves to Death
  CAUTION: When Postman discusses literacy and the love of books and learning and "bo
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• Westworld (TV series)
  ...o very good on issues of race and gender — and revolutionary politics. One caution: there are (largely male) sub-cultures in which trading insults can be bond
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• Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century
  CAUTION: Theories of "the social construction of reality" had been earlier put to w
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