America’s Forever War and the Cost of Assimilation

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore “They’re wrong. There is a military option: to destroy North Korea’s program and North Korea itself. He’s not gonna allow, President Trump, the ability of this madman to have a missile to hit America. If there’s going to be a war to stop him, it will be over there. If thousands… Continue reading America’s Forever War and the Cost of Assimilation

Orientalism and the Ghost in Hollywood’s Shell

I. The term “ghost in the machine” was coined in 1949 by British philosopher Gilbert Ryle as a critique of Cartesian dualism. Ryle rejected the notion that the body was little more than a ‘machine” operated by the independent “ghost” of the human mind, arguing instead that the two were fundamentally interconnected. Over the ensuing… Continue reading Orientalism and the Ghost in Hollywood’s Shell