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Claire Colebrook - Who Would You Kill to Save the World

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Existential Question in Cinema

The main hinge of at least the first book of dune is kind of who would you kill to save the world and for, for moi deep the Messiah figure if you will. He has to sacrifice his beloved, or he would need to kill himself to prevent the horrible future. You know what I find interesting is that cinema often asks that question right it does have like you would have to destroy everything. It's almost as though there's some sort of existential exercise in us confronting the possibility of mateLike one of my favorite films, the day the earth stood still. As a boss in, I think it's the first robot books which is kind of actually short stories where there's the

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