This week on the blog, I gush about Dune (2021)! More to the point, I talk about why I think the film is a faithful adaptation, but not a dogmatic one and also how the film brilliantly presents a post colonial reading of the (first part of the) book.https://acoup.blog/2021/11/05/miscellanea-reflections-on-the-sands-of-dune/ …
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I'm familiar with it and have always though it was rather fatuous, a relic of thinking of history in terms of "stages" or "progress", the teleological fallacy. I see it as more of an endless recurrence with differences being mostly superficial.
Profoundly disagree on differences being 'mostly superficial.' History does, as Thucydides suggests, reflect itself, but it does not repeat and there are major discontinuities in the ways humans survive (pre-agri, agri, industrial) which have massive impacts.
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If all one has is a light dusting of history it is easy to miss this because nearly all of our history slots into that 'predominantly agricultural' period (the 'organic economy'), but non-agricultural societies work very differently, as do industrial ones.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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