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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?
Shorts
What to the Droid Is Life Day?
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The Rebel Alliance fought for freedom, but this freedom was predicated on the automation of labor — on droids.
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Sacred Objects
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A medieval relic economy operates in the Star Wars universe—and in the universe of its fans.
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Far, Far Away?
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The line between cultural influence and cultural appropriation can be blurry.
Shorts
I’ve Never Seen Anything
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How could the Jedi Order vanish from public memory in less than a generation?
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Death to the Ewoks
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Though the genocidal event isn’t canon, many fans apparently wish it was.
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From A Certain Point Of View
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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.
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If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Batuu
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To work, a theme park needs to collapse the mythic pasts that it depicts with the pasts of our own lives.
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Fandom: A Star Wars Story
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This is about much more than Star Wars—it is about media bias and “information disorder” in the twenty-first century.