One Beep for a Dying Colonialism: Star Trek TOS, S1Ep11 and 12, "The Menagerie"
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One Beep for a Dying Colonialism: Star Trek TOS, S1Ep11 and 12, "The Menagerie"

The ideal of an harmonious human race necessitates external threats, but the fantasy of the show is pernicious by making the threatening aliens so frequently absent. This works as a variation of Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism in that discourse about the other (aliens) is controlled by European (Federation) writers, so that the subjects of inquiry are given no voice in creating a knowledge base about them. The result is a total demonization of the other that justifies continued cultural and political domination via colonization.

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"Thick as a Brick" Through Glass: Prog Review #7
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"Thick as a Brick" Through Glass: Prog Review #7

But my dread of writing this album review played a small part as well. I listened to Thick as a Brick many times over a period of weeks at the beginning of my hiatus, hoping I would be inspired to find some point of focus. But the meandering, sprawling, impenetrable world of this album offered me little to latch onto because its vastness leaves me lost.

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