Science Fiction

Become a member of the Science Fiction community to continue the discussion

Website - https://damiengwalter.com

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DamienWalter/membership

Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/DamienWalter

Subscribe to the Science Fiction podcast feed for long-form commentaries on these video essays

https://damiengwalter.com/podcast/

Join the Science Fiction community on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/324897304599197/

Why do we love science fiction movies?

Sometimes it’s because they take us to strange new worlds.

Other times they just have the best effects, the biggest explosions, or the most guns.

But when science fiction movies become legendary it’s often because they tell us something deep, true and meaningful.

Then there are the science fiction movies that step up to bat for legendary status

take a big swing

and miss

and sometimes, as much as we love the hits, we love those misses

#

Become a member of the Science Fiction community to continue the discussion

Website - https://damiengwalter.com

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DamienWalter/membership

Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/DamienWalter

Subscribe to the Science Fiction podcast feed for long-form commentaries on these video essays

https://damiengwalter.com/podcast/

Join the Science Fiction community on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/324897304599197/

Watch the FULL video version on the new Science Fiction (video) Spotify channel : https://open.spotify.com/show/7lMNsoZctViqbqv8atqpK2?si=9a474bb8a9d74147

Why was the 1970s a classic era for science fiction cinema? I’m guessing many 1970s scifi movies are forgotten, by anyone who wasn’t there to see them. Dark Star. Silent Running. Rollerball!

The 70s produced so much great scifi cinema it’s hard to list it all.

And even when it wasn’t great, it was still interesting. It’s like every scifi movie in that decade was a unique experiment, always different, always new. And then one movie came along that ended the golden decade for strange, cool scifi movies.

After Star Wars every science fiction movie was trying to be a scifi blockbuster.

And Hollywood’s search for the next big corporate entertainment franchise meant that everything would eventually get a reboot. Sometimes that worked. And sometimes it didn’t. And it didn’t work enough times that, I for one, live in dread of Hollywood rebooting another 70s science fiction classic. But.

There is one movie from that golden decade which, the more I think about it, actually does need a reboot.

#

Watch the FULL video version on the new Science Fiction (video) Spotify channel : https://open.spotify.com/show/7lMNsoZctViqbqv8atqpK2?si=9a474bb8a9d74147

Become a member of the Science Fiction community to continue the discussion

Website - https://damiengwalter.com

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DamienWalter/membership

Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/DamienWalter

Subscribe to the Science Fiction podcast feed for long-form commentaries on these video essays

https://damiengwalter.com/podcast/

Join the Science Fiction community on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/324897304599197/

SF author Ken MacLeod on his lifelong friend Iain Banks.

Become a member of the Science Fiction community to continue the discussion

Website - https://damiengwalter.com

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DamienWalter/membership

Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/DamienWalter

Subscribe to the Science Fiction podcast feed for long-form commentaries on these video essays

https://damiengwalter.com/podcast/

Join the Science Fiction community on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/324897304599197/

Does it matter that the Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin is a work of propaganda? I think it does. But it's going to take 2 hours to explain.

Become a member of the Science Fiction community to continue the discussion

Website - https://damiengwalter.com

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DamienWalter/membership

Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/DamienWalter

Subscribe to the Science Fiction podcast feed for long-form commentaries on these video essays

https://damiengwalter.com/podcast/

Join the Science Fiction community on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/324897304599197/

Equipment

Camera https://amzn.to/41DpI1I

Lens https://amzn.to/3tyH1nZ

Microphone https://amzn.to/3RZ3sfD

Laptop https://amzn.to/48eZDsf

Recommendations

Greatest scifi novel https://amzn.to/3GZgL9r

First scifi novel https://amzn.to/41DazgK

Worst scifi novel https://amzn.to/3S045FO

Most overrated scifi writer https://amzn.to/3NIchI9

Dune is the Star Wars killer - https://youtu.be/JPOsoph3TCY

Become a member of the Science Fiction community to continue the discussion

Website - https://damiengwalter.com

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DamienWalter/membership

Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/DamienWalter

Subscribe to the Science Fiction podcast feed for long-form commentaries on these video essays

https://damiengwalter.com/podcast/

Join the Science Fiction community on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/324897304599197/

Equipment

Camera https://amzn.to/41DpI1I

Lens https://amzn.to/3tyH1nZ

Microphone https://amzn.to/3RZ3sfD

Laptop https://amzn.to/48eZDsf

Recommendations

Greatest scifi novel https://amzn.to/3GZgL9r

First scifi novel https://amzn.to/41DazgK

Worst scifi novel https://amzn.to/3S045FO

Most overrated scifi writer https://amzn.to/3NIchI9

00:00:57 Introduction

00:03:39 Professor Elana Gomel

00:09:55 Charles Dickens as scifi writer

00:14:17 Stanislaw Lem and The Other

00:18:59 Anti-Humanism

00:22:46 Lem vs the SFWA

00:26:27 Beyond Humanism

00:28:12 LEM and Posthumanism

00:33:37 Fear of the Posthuman

00:38:00 Lem's criticism of non-existant novels

00:40:41 Lem on AI

00:47:08 Philosophy of Posthumanism

00:51:02 Monster Fantasies

00:54:47 Dangerous utopias

00:58:34 A new mythos of time

01:03:37 Why does Elon Musk like simulation theory?

01:08:08 The dangers of Messianic myths

01:11:09 Darko Suvin and socialism

01:14:24 Communism was oppressive and boring

Become a member of the Science Fiction community to continue the discussion

Website - https://damiengwalter.com

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DamienWalter/membership

Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/DamienWalter

Subscribe to the Science Fiction podcast feed for long-form commentaries on these video essays

https://damiengwalter.com/podcast/

Join the Science Fiction community on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/324897304599197/

Equipment

Camera https://amzn.to/41DpI1I

Lens https://amzn.to/3tyH1nZ

Microphone https://amzn.to/3RZ3sfD

Laptop https://amzn.to/48eZDsf

Recommendations

Greatest scifi novel https://amzn.to/3GZgL9r

First scifi novel https://amzn.to/41DazgK

Worst scifi novel https://amzn.to/3S045FO

Most overrated scifi writer https://amzn.to/3NIchI9

Members Only

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:50 Is Iain McGilchrist a scifi fan?

00:07:05 Iain McGilchrist's work and philosophy

00:17:34 Reason vs Rationalisation

00:22:30 Kubrick's 2001 and the hemispheres

00:27:14 Why do we take everything literally now?

00:34:41 The myths that form us

00:43:22 How do we reconnect to the mythos?

00:49:36 Campbell, Jung and the synthetic mythos

00:55:27 Creativity and the hemispheres

01:03:27 Is the right hemisphere the source?

01:07:00 The mythos and the machine

01:15:27 AI and administration

01:24:42 Is myth the true reality?

01:39:24 What does a better balanced future look like?

Become a member of the Science Fiction community to continue the discussion

Website - https://damiengwalter.com

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DamienWalter/membership

Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/DamienWalter

Subscribe to the Science Fiction podcast feed for long-form commentaries on these video essays

https://damiengwalter.com/podcast/

Join the Science Fiction community on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/324897304599197/

Equipment

Camera https://amzn.to/41DpI1I

Lens https://amzn.to/3tyH1nZ

Microphone https://amzn.to/3RZ3sfD

Laptop https://amzn.to/48eZDsf

Recommendations

Greatest scifi novel https://amzn.to/3GZgL9r

First scifi novel https://amzn.to/41DazgK

Worst scifi novel https://amzn.to/3S045FO

Most overrated scifi writer https://amzn.to/3NIchI9

Become a member of the Science Fiction community to continue the discussion

Website - https://damiengwalter.com

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DamienWalter/membership

Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/DamienWalter

Subscribe to the Science Fiction podcast feed for long-form commentaries on these video essays

https://damiengwalter.com/podcast/

Join the Science Fiction community on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/324897304599197/