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A Little More Knowledge Lights Our Way
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Who gets to take meaning from things and have that meaning-making respected and valued?
Who gets to take meaning from things and have that meaning-making respected and valued?
The Rebel Alliance fought for freedom, but this freedom was predicated on the automation of labor — on droids.
A medieval relic economy operates in the Star Wars universe—and in the universe of its fans.
The line between cultural influence and cultural appropriation can be blurry.
How could the Jedi Order vanish from public memory in less than a generation?
Though the genocidal event isn’t canon, many fans apparently wish it was.
By denying access to the original cuts of the saga films, George Lucas has left us without the critical cultural documents needed for understanding the franchise’s power.
To work, a theme park needs to collapse the mythic pasts that it depicts with the pasts of our own lives.
This is about much more than Star Wars—it is about media bias and “information disorder” in the twenty-first century.