Issue #1: On War
Introduction to the 14th Floor’s first official Magazine Edition for February, 2016. This edition focuses on the theme of “war” in the 21st Century.
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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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“Strategic stalemate: when force correlations approach equilibrium and guerrilla warfare becomes the most important activity.” Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army Commander, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center Counterinsurgency Field Manual, FM3-24, MCWP 3-33.5 (2006) “For when the mind is taken up in vision and fixes its view either on any real object or mere […]
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Genesis’s “Land of Confusion” hit the airwaves almost thirty years ago. When considered beside today’s political developments, it becomes clear that the big single has not lost its punch.
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How can the writings of South African Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee help us reckon with the underlying cause of perpetual war: imperialism as a logic of power?
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Part 4 of Sean Callaghan’s ongoing flash-fiction serial about what happens after the zombie apocalypse.
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