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    • Star Wars: The Force Awakens & Perpetual War
    • Fragmentation and Stalemate: Speculating on Conflict
    • Can’t You See This Is (Still) the Land of Confusion?
    • Unbinding the Gag: The Lessons of J.M. Coetzee’s Magistrate
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Author: Sean Callaghan

Star Wars: The Force Awakens & Perpetual War

Sean Callaghan considers the implications of a Star Wars galaxy caught in perpetual war. What is at the heart of this constant repetition of rising Death Stars? Is this an issue that goes much deeper than bad scriptwriting?

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The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show, Part 4: Rulepole

Part 4 of Sean Callaghan’s ongoing flash-fiction serial about what happens after the zombie apocalypse.

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The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show, Part 3. The Other End of Words.

The third installment of Sean Callaghan’s Zombie Flash Fiction series takes us on a short detour to the edge of meaning.

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The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show, Part 2. Memento.

The next installment in Sean Callaghan’s ongoing zombie flash fiction serial.

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The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show, Part I. Fly-boy.

Sean Callaghan writes the first flash zombie fiction installment in his ongoing series, “The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show.”

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After the Zombie Apocalypse, After Modernity

In which Sean Callaghan ruminates on the political unconscious of The Walking Dead, on what it means to have hope during a zombie apocalypse, and where we go after the dust has settled on all our dead undead.

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Ceci n’est pas le Prophète.

By Sean Callaghan.

I was listening to a segment on CBC recently about a Palestinian cartoonist who, much like the artists and editors at Charlie Hebdo, found himself persecuted for publishing cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Unlike the tragically fated workers at the French magazine

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Why Science Fiction is the Future

By Sean Callaghan

No one else is trying to rewrite the future, so the rest of us should start.

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What Happened When I Got a Job.

By Sean Callaghan

My move from Academics to the private sector, and what I’ve learned so far.

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Opinion: The Fate of Demo- cracy in Egypt

By Sean Callaghan The Problem What happens after the revolution?  How does a people move from their desire to overthrow a regime to the concrete practice of governing according to democratic principles, and what exactly are these principles?  These are the questions I keep asking myself while watching the political drama unfold in Egypt.  Before […]

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