Elysium
By Heordredenn: Film Review: Elysium, written, directed and co-produced by Neill Blomkamp, released August 2013. It is 2154. The Earth is an overpopulated, impoverished, environmentally degraded ruin, with civilization falling apart. But high above a vast, silver-white wheel structure hangs in the sky, the last island of peace, order and civilization, the great orbital habitat Elysium, now home to the global elite of the cosmopolitan super-rich. That is the premise of South African director Neill…
The End of the Theoretical
By Nick Grifford: Introduction Recently I attended a speech given by Alexander Dugin who was providing an explanation of, and generally promoting, his latest book, The Fourth Political Theory. I think that I would not be too far from the mark if I ventured that, following the hour long monologue, most members of the audience were only vaguely aware of the Forth Political Theory actually was and the questions that followed attested to this observation. Of…