30 May 2010 1 Comment

Boal, Enzensberger, and Baudrillard

Boal, Enzensberger, and Baudrillard

At the conclusion of the selection from Theater of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal writes that the main goal of the theater should be the “liberation of the spectator, on whom the theater has imposed finished visions of the world” (Boal 352). His conclusion is that the spectator becomes a voiceless victim of bourgeois drama, unable to [...]

4 April 2010 Comments Off

Galactic Research

Galactic Research

I’m currently writing a story that could be classified as cyberpunk space opera, along the lines of Charles Stross‘ Accelerando. I feel like I have to know something about physics, astronomy, and the anatomy of the galaxy. I mean: it is a space adventure, first and foremost, so I should know something factual about the [...]