Given that Dune is now back in the zeitgeist, it seems a good time to bring back this essay I wrote which demonstrates the ways in which Dune's construction of the Fremen follows on a set of literally ancient tropes about the 'barbarian' other:https://acoup.blog/2020/02/21/collections-the-fremen-mirage-interlude-ways-of-the-fremen/ …
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on seeing it in a theater. We saw it last night and can’t imagine watching it on a small screen (at least for the first time. I’m not saying I won’t stream it to watch again).