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Battlestar Galactica and philosophy : mission accomplished or mission frakked up? / edited by Josef Steiff and Tristan D. Tamplin ; foreword by David Weddle.
- Title
- Battlestar Galactica and philosophy : mission accomplished or mission frakked up? / edited by Josef Steiff and Tristan D. Tamplin ; foreword by David Weddle.
- Publication
- Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1992.77.B353 B38 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xviii, 423 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "A collection of essays exploring philosophical, political, and cultural themes of the television show Battlestar Galactica"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 33
- Uniform Title
- Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 33.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-403) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The narrative disruptions of model eight / Daniel Milsky -- Frak-tured postmodern lives, or, how I found out I was a Cylon / Paul Booth -- The avatar and the ego: reconciling ourselves with videogames / Luke Cuddy -- Gothic anxiety -- Am I Cylon? Self-knowledge at the crossroads -- Kiss me, now die! / Magali Rennes -- I frak, therefore I am / Jennifer Harwood-Smith -- The c-word: queering the Cylons / Shira Chess -- I, cyborg / Shana Heinricy -- I am a Cylon / Richard Hanley -- You can't rape a machine / Amy Kind -- Knowing we're frakked: democracy and bad decisions / Tristan D. Tamplin -- The razor's edge: Galactica, Pegasus, and Lakoff / Sara Livingston -- Some Cylons are more equal than others / Hal Shipman -- They evolved, but do they deserve consideration? / John Scott Gray -- Playing with fire without getting burned: blowback re-imagined / Isabel Pinedo -- The wretched of New Caprica / Dan Dinello -- Choosing sides: occupation or resistance? / Ian M. Peters -- Secrets and lies: balancing security and democracy in the colonial fleet / Louis Melançon -- Weapons of mass salvation / Bryan McHenry -- SALTed popcorn: the original Battlestar Galactica in historical context / John Kenneth Muir -- 33,34,35 ... the life of the limits / Jean-Paul Martinon -- Lost in space? Finding your way without a map / Trudy Milburn -- Free will, determinism, and Schopenhauer (oh, my!) / Bryan C. Barker -- Living in the watchtower / Christopher Christian -- The meaning of a deathless life / David Vessey -- Why your Mormon neighbor knows more about this show than you do / Ivan Wolfe -- GINO or dialogic: what does "re-imagined" really mean? / Richard Berger -- The real war between Battlestar Galacticas -- A dangerous place for women / Ewan Kirkland -- Eve, Lilith, and the Cylon connection / Heather Rolufs -- Dreamers in the night -- Coduction: Cylons, colonials and criticism.
- ISBN
- 9780812696431 (trade paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008015295
- OCLC
- 220421608
- SCSB-10695301
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library