TED K - A War Brewing Inside a Man

There are plenty of arguments about what Ted Kaczynski’s philosophy, put forth through a manifesto forcibly published in The Washington Post, is really saying. It’s been in vogue to reconsider some of his points as reasonable and in common with the disillusioned younger generations of America. Tony Stone’s movie Ted K doesn’t really dig into the ideas within Kaczynski’s manifesto as talking points but rather, simply recapitulates them out as voiceovers juxtaposed with various imagery that may...

CITIZEN KANE: T for Technique and T for Tragedy

Citizen Kane is the greatest movie ever made, but it’s not the greatest movie Orson Welles ever made. In his lifetime, he described the movie as a millstone around his neck. No one could ever appreciate anything else he made because it was always held to that impossible standard. With some distance and critical reappraisal behind us, now we can see that he never really failed to live up to the promise of Citizen Kane. If anything, he surpassed it. Kane reinvented filmmaking, but it looks down...

Teddy Bear Robotic Companions: Science Fiction in the News

Home | Glossary | Timeline | New Teddy Bear Robotic Companions A plush teddy bear sat on display at TechFest, a two-day Microsoft event that started today. Steven Bathiche, a research and development program manager, is looking to go beyond the bears you know. What kind of features might you expect in a 21st century bear? How about face recognitio...

Conspiring with ‘friends’: Hester Pulter’s Poetry and the Stanley Family at Cumberlow Green

Conspiring with ‘friends’: Hester Pulter’s Poetry and the Stanley Family at Cumberlow Green Karen Britland The Review of English Studies, Volume 69, Issue 292, November 2018, Pages 832–854, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/h...