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The Man in the High Castle (TV series season 1&2 after 1962 book by Philip K Dick)
Arguably The Man in the High Castle is the TV series of a particular alternate moment in our history. It is as if the popularity this series enjoys is just one facet of a constant up-swell, not only a dilation of the Overton Window that now celebrates identity politics, but also a genuine ‘hyernormalization’ of nationalism, islamophobia,…
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The Jupiter Menace (1982 documentary by Lee Auerbach and Peter Matulavich)
The Jupiter Menace is an incredible rare documentary (it was even difficult to find a proper cover). One could really speculate why – and it is really fun to enumerate the options. Some may say it’s either because it is a complete bogus story of end-of-the-world millenarian conservative Christian radical trash or maybe even because it’s an…