Stuart Hall’s idea of representation and the media is that the media doesn’t simply reflect reality; it helps construct the meaning we attach to things. So, all these articles are about someone trying to define and establish what something means, what a game means, what it means to own a game, what a character means, what AI means, even what it means to be human.
- When a label changes reality.
40 Years Later, Transformers finally embraces its biggest controversy
- In 1986: Optimus Prime’s death = shocking commercial decision.
- Over four decades: Optimus Prime’s death = childhood trauma / fan memory / cultural mythology.
- 2026: Optimus Prime’s death = marketing opportunity.
- When a company comes back forty years later and says, basically, ‘Sorry about that’, is it acknowledging fan culture, or is it turning fan culture into another product?
Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
- What happens when the machine we’re building to imitate humans encounters a test designed to prove that it isn’t human?
Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone
Australia among safest countries in the world when global disaster strikes
- Australians mythology around:
- isolation.
- self-sufficiency.
- distance from the rest of the world.
- “we’ll be right.”
- resilience.
- surviving disasters.
- Why does the idea of Australia as a safe haven feel so intuitively plausible to Australians?
‘The Emperor Is a Fan of Flock’: Darth Vader Speaks at City Council Meeting
Doctor Doom Shows Up to Support Seattle’s Surveillance Network
- Why are fictional villains suddenly useful political commentators? Eg: Darth Vader = authoritarian surveillance.
- Who gets to define what “owning” something means?