{"id":8213,"date":"2017-11-30T19:07:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T19:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/?p=8213"},"modified":"2018-01-28T04:43:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T04:43:30","slug":"invasions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2017\/11\/30\/invasions\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the charms of <em>Star Wars<\/em> was the contrast of robots and serfs, space ships and lords. High technology and feudalism.<\/p>\n<p>If you follow US politics (don\u2019t, it\u2019s a really really bad season), you\u2019re seeing the beginnings of something quite similar: a 21st century version of medieval culture and power dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Instantaneous access to every fact \u2013 and any fiction disguised as fact. World-ending weapons in the hands of a cabal propping up a cult.<\/p>\n<p>Our popular imaginary for the last ~15 years has been so busy re-staging the 9\/11 attacks, (suppressing the invasion of Iraq), that it has failed to express the emerging dystopia.<\/p>\n<p>Every blockbuster ends with the literal destruction of the world, rather than its substitution with a deadly simulacrum.<\/p>\n<p>In short, we&#8217;ve had too much of this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com\/wiki\/Battle_of_New_York\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1-battle_of_new_york.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"846\" height=\"460\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1-battle_of_new_york.png 846w, https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1-battle_of_new_york-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1-battle_of_new_york-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1-battle_of_new_york-700x381.png 700w, https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1-battle_of_new_york-800x435.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And not enough of this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers-bw-still-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2786\" height=\"2184\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers-bw-still-001.jpg 2786w, https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers-bw-still-001-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers-bw-still-001-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers-bw-still-001-700x549.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers-bw-still-001-800x627.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2786px) 100vw, 2786px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the charms of Star Wars was the contrast of robots and serfs, space ships and lords. High technology and feudalism. If you follow US politics (don\u2019t, it\u2019s a really really bad season), you\u2019re seeing the beginnings of something quite similar: a 21st century version of medieval culture and power dynamics. Instantaneous access to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,10,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8242,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions\/8242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}