1. I do love Alan Moore, but I get tired of him explaining that his superhero fatigue should be universal. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/08/alan-moore-confirms-he-is-retiring-from-creating-comic-books …
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i uh can't say i agree that the project of figuring out how, culturally, we're going to deal with transhuman actors is *finished*
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I have to that most superhero stories grapple with that question only to a homeopathic degree. They certainly could, though.
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i claim they're all dealing with it directly, though accidentally so they mostly get more and more tired iterating on hero-worship
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Marvel's Civil Wars have drunk-walked their way to asking relevant questions, though, not that any useful answers are in evidence
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I don't think "humans with exaggerated agency" are a one-to-one map with "transhuman actors", though obviously there's overlap.
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But the few satisfying parts of CIVIL WAR II have treated Ulysses' power more like a poorly understood algo than a human drive.
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God and Ayn Rand? both dead i think
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