Rowan Fortune
Why so Political?
From Maverick to Star Trek, what is political? The word ‘political’ is frustratingly vague. Its usage, more than most words, is highly...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 30
- 3 min
Do Stars Have a Gender?
A look at two comic books and how they navigate gender, trauma and embodiment. The comic book medium has fewer restrictions than most...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 2
- 3 min
Dialogic Consciousness
From conversations to theory and art. In conversation, we can hold thoughts and reflect on problems sometimes for hours on end. This is...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jun 11
- 5 min
Thinking About Desks
A Journey Around my Desks, in the spirit of Xavier de Maistre I have now examined my desk more closely and have seen that nothing good...
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Rowan Fortune
- May 14
- 5 min
How Elden Ring Taught me to Love Games Again
Overcoming Perfectionism in Play Not since I was a teenager playing Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn has any computer game obsessed me as...
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Rowan Fortune
- Apr 23
- 5 min
A Radical Mask
On myths, masks, and a sensuous materialism. Despite the amount of academic reading and citations[…] it should also be remembered that...
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Rowan Fortune
- Apr 16
- 4 min
Films, Interrupted
On mobile phones, movie commentaries, Let’s Plays and channel hopping. Sometimes I neglect to write an essay because my thoughts on a...
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Rowan Fortune
- Apr 9
- 8 min
Resurrected Reloaded Revolutions, or, Please Stop
A Review of The Matrix Resurrections, a shrug of a film. At long last I found time to watch the newest addition to the Wachowskis’ Matrix...
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Rowan Fortune
- Mar 5
- 4 min
Mythology meets Horror in Elden Ring
an amateur gamer’s initial impressions It has been over a decade since Hidetaka Miyazaki took over the Demon’s Soul game and laid the...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 30, 2021
- 5 min
Bloch’s Limits
The fourth instalment of my close read of Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope. Every essay is a stand-alone piece, but if you want to...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 2, 2021
- 5 min
Dystopian Thesis II: The Subversion
We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no...
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Rowan Fortune
- Sep 25, 2021
- 5 min
Dystopian Thesis I: The Machiavellians
An examination of some of the political assumptions behind the dystopian literary genre. Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle...
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Rowan Fortune
- Sep 11, 2021
- 5 min
Through the Mist
SPOILER ALERT: This blog contains spoilers for The Mist (Netflix 2017). Recently I watched Netflix’s The Mist, a TV series adaptation of...
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Rowan Fortune
- Aug 21, 2021
- 4 min
Bloch contra Freud
The third installment of my close read of Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope. Every essay is a stand-alone piece, but if you want to...
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Rowan Fortune
- Aug 14, 2021
- 5 min
The Softest Names to his Faults
Alcibiades as a young villain. There is a type of popular villain today defined, in the main, by their extreme likeability. And they are...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 31, 2021
- 5 min
Polly & Paul
This is a review of Andrea Lawlor’s book Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl. CW for explicit discussions of sexuality. I love the word...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 24, 2021
- 4 min
A Quintillion Worlds
Why No Man’s Sky is a unique and, ultimately, brilliant game; a meditation through exploration. No Man’s Sky is a procedurally generated...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 10, 2021
- 9 min
A Queer Socialism
A Review of Hannah Dee’s The Red in the Rainbow: Sexuality, Socialism and LGBT Liberation (2010) and an examination of changing...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 3, 2021
- 10 min
A Grim Comedy
Judge Dredd and Doctor Who, a neoliberal dystopia. Grimdark takes its name from the miniature wargame Warhammer 40,000, and its famous...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jun 19, 2021
- 6 min
Walking Games
The following essay on walking simulators/critical look at What Remains of Edith Finch contains spoilers. But now I’m starting to worry...
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