US president Joe Biden made a direct appeal to pro-Trump supporters and Republicans across the nation who did not vote for him to become the 46th president of the United States, calling for everyone to “stop the shouting and lower the temperature.” “Politics doesnât have to be a raging fire …
Read More »Lost in Transition: Mackenzie Davis and Friends, between Marketing and the Male Gaze – Part III
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD âFucking men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think youâre so creative. You donât know what itâs like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you. All you know how …
Read More »Lost in Transition: Mackenzie Davis and Friends, between Marketing and the Male Gaze – Part II
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD âWe are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.â — Freud âA woman is a mystery to guide …
Read More »Lost in Transition: Mackenzie Davis and Friends, between Marketing and the Male Gaze – Part I
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD Lieutenant Commander Data: âI wonder. What would Dr. Freud say about the symbolism of devouring oneself?â Counselor Deanna Troi:Â âData â sometimes a cake is just a cake.â — Star Trek: TNG, âPhantasmsâ, S07E06 âI wouldnât have seen it if I hadnât …
Read More »Gender Benders: A Follow-Up on Mackenzie Davis and the Remakings of the Female Other â PART II
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays itâs no good being a cabbage â unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. …
Read More »Gender Benders: A Follow-Up on Mackenzie Davis and the Remakings of the Female Other â PART I
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, âMy country, right or wrong.â In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, …
Read More »Outside the Pale: Science Fiction and Sexual Politics beyond the American Quarter
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD I advise you to throw out altogether § 3âthe âdemand (womenâs) for freedom of loveâ. That is not really a proletarian but a bourgeois demand. — Vladimir Lenin, in a letter to Inessa Armand, dated 17 January 1915 For once Iâm …
Read More »The Follow-Up of Follow-Ups: What does the lighter side of an alien invasion-abduction have in common with Hollywoodâs crisis of manhood?
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD I have written an article a long time ago about a horror-SF movie I watched largely against my will, Dark Skies (2013), which fits into my longstanding research on sexual anxieties and alien abduction scenarios. Iâd been thinking of writing a follow-up for some time …
Read More »Trump Leverage Card
In his hand President Trump holds The demurrage card; his authority to declare demurrage on The US dollar. He doesnât have to use it yet however. Itâs enough that The Fed know that he has this card which makes them more of a listening partner and investor. It is important …
Read More »Is the new Michael Moore film misleading or an eye opener?
The new Michael Moore film Planet of the Humans, which takes aim at the green movement, has provoked a furious reaction from scientists and campaigners all over the world. Moore states in his film that the green movement is hypocrite, and in fact dangerously misleading the public. He exposes for …
Read More »Soaring through Americaâs Dark Skies: 9/11 paranoia in alien guise!
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD I made the mistake of watching a horror movie once late, late at night. Had drunk a cappuccino earlier in the day so I couldnât sleep and I thought watching one would keep me sharp. And, knowing me, I agreed to go along …
Read More »Fasting and Feasting on the Egyptian TV Screen: The Shadow of the President to the Rescue
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD â Another season of maniacal television is over and done with the passing of another Egyptian Ramadan. But only just. The episodes had to extend into the Eid to finish themselves off. And you had to wait a day or two afterwards to be able to …
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