June 14, 2026
Jerry Goldsmith and the Broken Ear of Planet of the Apes
An anthropological reading of Jerry Goldsmith's score for Planet of the Apes, an impure, modern and displaced music for a civilization after man.
Topic
science fiction
8 articles in this route.
May 20, 2026
2001, Solaris and the Cinema of Impossible Contact
Two films suggest that extraterrestrial contact is not chiefly a technical problem but a philosophical one: how do we speak to what resists understanding?
May 4, 2026
Why Do We Still Need Extraterrestrials?
The alien as a cultural figure in a polarized world where denialism and the far right coexist with cinematic narratives of progress.
April 13, 2026
Star Trek: Humanism for the Galaxy
How Star Trek reshaped the screen alien through humanism, diplomacy and a utopian idea of the future.
February 9, 2026
The Messianic Extraterrestrial
The extraterrestrial as messiah is one of science-fiction cinema's persistent motifs: an outside agent who arrives to redeem us from ourselves.
January 12, 2026
The Other Has Always Been Here
Long before cinema imagined alien life, our species lived alongside beings not entirely like us: Neanderthals, Denisovans and other hominins.
December 5, 2025
Soviet Science-Fiction Cinema: Tarkovsky's Answer to Kubrick
How Andrei Tarkovsky shaped a poetic, metaphysical alternative to Western science fiction in Solaris and Stalker.
May 5, 2025
Between Endless Banality and Unthinkable Terror
Susan Sontag's The Imagination of Disaster as a lens for 1950s science-fiction cinema.