I'm far less nervous about what choices will be made with the x-tian themes than I am about the straight-up colonialist assumptions in the books.
There is a constant repetition of the "Free White North - Narnia in the North" and endless representations of the "southerners" as evil and dark-skinned (and therefore evil). They are characterised as Muslims but presented as workshipers of a violent god who demands bloodshed (Tash). There's a whole whack of damaging orientalism(s) constructed around the non-whites in the books (vioent, uncaring of human life, savage, full of intrigue) - and no matter how carefully handled in these movies - its bound to raise some tensions.
I guess I wonder whether the director will pander to the x-tian right sense of superiority or make some effort to negativise the more rascist aspects of the series.
We've had 1 and 2 dollar coins in Canada for some time now. They work just fine.
Easy in that most pop and laundry machines take them. And all the smaller coins go into the jar so I'm never carrying around more than 2 or 3 dollar coins.
I taught first year eng lit to a class of 30.
I read each paper 3 times.
1. To order the papers from bad to very bad.
2. Read, marked and made comments.
3. Read again to make sure the marking spectrum was fair (worse papers got worse marks ect.)
Seriously though - Fountain of Youth fits right in with the whole "quest for some mystical talisman/idem." It would actually play off really well with the aging character.
He'd sit around ruminating about his lost youth... He'd be torn between his disbelief and his fear of death. It could also make a lot of "in-joke" asides about hollywood.
People seem to be ignoring the implications of this for our own language - something Whorl was very concerned with. If our thought is limited by our language, the possible directions for hypotheses and discovery are also limited (I've heard theoretical physicists complain of this). Further, that thought tends to be over-determined by a judeo-christian metaphysic built heavily into the way this language describes the world.
And every year, several languages go extinct - taking with them unique ways of knowing the world.
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I'm far less nervous about what choices will be made with the x-tian themes than I am about the straight-up colonialist assumptions in the books.
There is a constant repetition of the "Free White North - Narnia in the North" and endless representations of the "southerners" as evil and dark-skinned (and therefore evil). They are characterised as Muslims but presented as workshipers of a violent god who demands bloodshed (Tash). There's a whole whack of damaging orientalism(s) constructed around the non-whites in the books (vioent, uncaring of human life, savage, full of intrigue) - and no matter how carefully handled in these movies - its bound to raise some tensions.
I guess I wonder whether the director will pander to the x-tian right sense of superiority or make some effort to negativise the more rascist aspects of the series.
Ahem...
Has no one considered that this review is just the sort of marketing ploy Adams would have found amusing?
Reviewers will be the first bastards up against the wall when the revolution comes.
We've had 1 and 2 dollar coins in Canada for some time now. They work just fine.
Easy in that most pop and laundry machines take them. And all the smaller coins go into the jar so I'm never carrying around more than 2 or 3 dollar coins.
I taught first year eng lit to a class of 30. I read each paper 3 times. 1. To order the papers from bad to very bad. 2. Read, marked and made comments. 3. Read again to make sure the marking spectrum was fair (worse papers got worse marks ect.)
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Frankenstien: And what was his name Egor?
Igor: Abby something. Abby - - Normal, I think.
Seriously though - Fountain of Youth fits right in with the whole "quest for some mystical talisman/idem." It would actually play off really well with the aging character. He'd sit around ruminating about his lost youth... He'd be torn between his disbelief and his fear of death. It could also make a lot of "in-joke" asides about hollywood.
People seem to be ignoring the implications of this for our own language - something Whorl was very concerned with. If our thought is limited by our language, the possible directions for hypotheses and discovery are also limited (I've heard theoretical physicists complain of this). Further, that thought tends to be over-determined by a judeo-christian metaphysic built heavily into the way this language describes the world. And every year, several languages go extinct - taking with them unique ways of knowing the world.