Damien Walter

Johnny Is Jesus

Why is cyberpunk so hard to film? Science fiction is the mythos of modernity. It is to the 20th and 21st century what the Christian mythos was to earlier centuries. And like Christian symbolism, it’s incredibly easy for the symbols of scifi to look naff. That’s cheesy or kitsch for US readers. Mythic symbolism isContinue reading “Johnny Is Jesus”

The greatest 226 minutes in scifi television

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Star Trek is propaganda

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What are you rebelling against, Andor?

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Damo’s thoughts on Andor (so far)

Andor season 2 Has been less of a big thing than expected. So far. This is more about the online media landscape than about Andor. TV was once transitory. Watch it or miss it. Streaming shows are becoming more like books. People know Andor will still be there, so are watching it in their ownContinue reading “Damo’s thoughts on Andor (so far)”

The First Dystopia

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is a novel written at the beginning of the future. It’s hard to remember today, after Logan’s Run, The Handmaid’s Tale and Hunger Games made “dystopia” an entertainment genre, but when Yevgeny Zamyatin was writing in the early 1920s, it was only beginning to dawn on humanity just how bad the future might be. OrContinue reading “The First Dystopia”

The cyberpunk comic that kicked neoliberalism in the nuts

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Lost & Found

We’re further from a 21st century mythos than ever I set myself the quixotic task of finding a new mythos for the 21st century back in the early days of Covid. At first that search was the thesis of my course Writing the 21st Century Myth, then the Science Fiction podcast, then the channel. AndContinue reading “Lost & Found”