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Too Unpleasant to Have Alive: The Racist Logic of “Who Goes There”
The explorers are certain from the first time they lay eyes upon the alien that it bears an expression of unspeakable fury, and that this itself is evidence of innate evil. But really now, who wouldn’t be extremely vexed to crash their spaceship and become trapped under Antarctic ice? Furthermore, why should the alien be […]
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Desiring the Extinction of Knowledge
What does Frankenstein posit about the intelligibility of nature, especially human nature? “I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.” Awed […]
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Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the admin dashboard) to start a fresh post. Here are some suggestions for your first post. You can find new ideas for what to blog about by […]
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