An edition of Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up?
(2008)
Battlestar Galactic and Philosophy
Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up?
First edition
by Josef Steiff and Tristan D. Tamplin
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Battlestar Galactic and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up?
June 18, 2008, Open Court/Carus Publishing
Trade paperback
in English
- First edition
0812696433 9780812696431
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Book Details
First Sentence
""Act of Contrition" was the first script that Bradley Thompson and I wrote for Battlestar Galactica."
Table of Contents
ix. Foreword
xiii. “I Dare You to Watch This Show!”
xviii. Acknowledgments
1. MODEL ONE: Some Are Programmed to Think They Are Human
3. The Narrative Disruptions of Model Eight
17. Frak-tured Postmodern Lives, Or, How I Found Out I Was a Cylon
29. The Avatar and the Ego: Reconciling Ourselves with Videogames
39. Gothic Anxiety
49. Am I a Cylon? Self-Knowledge at the Crossroads
61. MODEL TWO: They Look Like Us Now
63. Kiss Me, Now Die!
77. I Frak, Therefor I Am
87. The C-Word: Queering the Cyclons
95. I, Cyborg
103. I am a Cylon
115. MODEL THREE: We Became What We Beheld
117. You Can’t Rape a Machine
129. Knowing We’re Frakked: Democracy and Bad Decisions
143. The Razor’s Edge: Galactica, Pegasus and Lakoff
155. Some Cylons are More Equal Than Others
163. They Evolved, but Do They Deserve Consideration?
171. MODEL FOUR: Battlestar Iraqtica
173. Playing with Fire Without Getting Burned: Blow-Back Re-Imagined
185. The Wretched of New Caprica
201. Choosing Sides: Occupation or Resistance?
211. Secrets and Lies: Balancing Security and Democracy in the Colonial Fleet
221. Weapons of Mass Salvation
233. SALTed Popcorn: The Original Battlestar Galactica in Historical Context
247. MODEL FIVE: Finding Purpose in the Void
249. 33, 34, 35 … The Life of the Limits
261. Lost in Space? Finding Your Way Without a Map
271. Free Will, Determinism and Schopenhauer (Oh, My!)
281. Living in the Watchtower
289. The Meaning of a Deathless Life
301. MODEL SIX: Near the End of Our Journey
303. Why Your Mormon Neighbor Knows More About This Show Than You Do
317. DINO or Dialogic: What Does “Re-Imagined” Really Mean?
329. The Real War Between Battlestar Galacticas
337. A Dangerous Place for Women
349. Eve, Lilith and the Cylon Connection
359. Dreamers in the Night
369. Coduction: Cylons, Colonials and Criticism
379. DOSSIER
381. Call Signs
387. Decodings
393. Lexicon
397. Intel
405. Other Campaigns (Bibliography)
409. War Journal (Episode Listing)
413. The Universe is a Vast and Complex System: Coincidental, Serendipitous Events Are Bound to Occur… (Index)
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
$18.95
Printing statement: "First printing: 2008"
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