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Pop Culture as Parable

Chloé Degnan

Science 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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YOU CANT SAY THAT ANYMORE

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