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    Why so Political?
    Rowan Fortune
    • Aug 6
    • 5 min

    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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    Do Stars Have a Gender?
    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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    Dialogic Consciousness
    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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    Thinking About Desks
    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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    How Elden Ring Taught me to Love Games Again
    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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    A Radical Mask
    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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    Films, Interrupted
    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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    Resurrected Reloaded Revolutions, or, Please Stop
    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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    Mythology meets Horror in Elden Ring
    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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    Bloch’s Limits
    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...
    49 views0 comments
    Dystopian Thesis II: The Subversion
    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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    Dystopian Thesis I: The Machiavellians
    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...
    25 views0 comments
    Through the Mist
    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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    Bloch contra Freud
    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...
    52 views0 comments
    The Softest Names to his Faults
    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...
    35 views0 comments
    Polly & Paul
    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...
    151 views0 comments
    A Quintillion Worlds
    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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    A Queer Socialism
    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...
    32 views0 comments
    A Grim Comedy
    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...
    46 views0 comments
    Walking Games
    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...
    18 views0 comments
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