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Bibliophilia & Anarchism in Star Trek: Picard

By María Angeles Castro & Javier Sethness Castro

Following up on our previous analysis of the political and philosophical affinities between Mikhail Bakunin and Richard Wagner, in which we discussed social ideologies such as feminism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and anarchist revolutionism in the epic opera The Ring (1874), we turn now to an examination … Read more

From “Trotsky in Tijuana” to “Chernobyl”: Caution & Reason

by Javier Sethness Castro

The promise of historical and speculative fiction is the reconstruction of the past in the present, or of the present in the past, and the contemplation of what might have been, or of what might still be. As the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud wrote, creative writers … Read more

Salvaging the Future: A Review of The Ministry for the Future

Javier Sethness Castro

Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future (New York: Orbit, 2020) After the basics of food and shelter that we need just as animals, first thing after that: dignity. Everyone needs and deserves this, just as part of being human. And yet this … Read more