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The New Way Forward in the Middle West

  A few quick observations about Zowie Bowie’s Source Code, from earlier this year. But first, the plot: A terrorist has just blown up a commuter train on the outskirts of Chicago, killing hundreds,...

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Illegals, Part 1

  I’ve been thinking a lot about alien invasion movies, and especially about the ones that feature human children, boy-explorers or pre-teen ambassadors to the talking bugs. I suppose it would just be...

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Illegals, Part 2

PART ONE IS HERE.  ALLEGORICAL COMPLEXITY #1—Super 8, eventually : You can think of this as a tip for reading: When you are trying to make sense of an allegory, it is not enough to list the...

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Illegals, Part 3

PART ONE IS HERE. PART TWO IS HERE. ALLEGORICAL COMPLEXITY #1 (CONTINUED) So… How is the alien most like a Jew? Or rather, what is it that allows you to identify the alien as a disguised Jew in the...

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Illegals, Part 4

PART ONE IS HERE. PART TWO IS HERE. PART THREE IS HERE.   ALLEGORICAL COMPLEXITY #2 — Attack the Block A new problem: What are we to say about stories that feature both allegorical and literal...

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The Revolutionary Energy of the Outmoded

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER, SPRING 2003.   •1. Fredric Jameson does not like predictions. His is an owlish and retrospective Marxism, one that happily foregoes the crystal ball of some former...

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