Pop Culture as Parable
Chloé DegnanScience fiction is only a few inventions away from science fact. Even the most “trivial” blockbuster reflects how we think, live, hope, and fear as a society—take it from a PhD student and movie geek raised on Marvel and Fast & Furious.
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TAKING THE BLAME
TAKING THE BLAME - X-Men: First Class and the hidden architects absolving real villains of their crimes
In the last article of the doomsday countdown, I spoke about how weird it is for people to weaponise the sacrosanctity of mythological...
MIRRORS OF OUR TIME
MIRRORS OF OUR TIME - Eyes of Wakanda (2025), The Odyssey (2026) and the Politics of Adaptation
This show is kind of gnarly. I love it.
Watching Eyes of Wakanda, particularly the second episode, "Legends and Lies", I couldn't help but thi...
IS THE WORK EVER DONE
IS THE WORK EVER DONE - Spider-Noir (2026)
“And what is he?”
“Retired.”
We meet Ben Reilly in a very different position from the typical superhero origin story. A total 180 from how we are introduced to Steve Rogers or Peggy Carter. We...
PASSING
PASSING - Agent Carter (season 2)
Boy, is this a lot of TV…
Looking ahead at the remaining ninety-something entries in this challenge, I am beginning to question whether I have accidentally signed myself up for a full-time job. Perhaps a...
To Those Who Think Tents Are the Big Fix
I noticed a post on here and wanted to use my voice and experience as someone currently completing a PhD researching refugee camps, shelter, and placemaking, to clear up some misinformation about what these images actually represent. Before...
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PhD candidate and owner of a diabolical taste in film Studying power and placemaking in refugee camps writing a blog because a phd isn’t enough apparently...
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