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James Wakefield - The Political Theology of Dune

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Orientalism - I'm Not Lido but Duncan Idaho

Herbert sort of orientalizes the Fremen and their sort of wild you know what I mean right. He wants to generate creativity and prevent this sort of ossified anti paradise that Lido creates during his reign but there's so much to go back to like the negation thing even edifice is one of the interesting things about Duncan Idaho.

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