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This is a wonderful video by Zoe Bee on plagiarism. If you have the time and a passing interest in the matter, I recommend checking it out – though if you do, please stick around past the eight minute mark.

I am particularly drawn to her points on how plagiarism reflect issues beyond the individual bad actors and that as groups (universities, online spaces) we can address issues of attribution. The video also makes a great point about the type of person who is most likely to successfully pass off the works of others as their own.

The beginning section is really interesting because it plays with the audience’s trust, which supports a larger message about the need to verify trusted sources. The fact that she doesn’t single out any new instances of individuals doing plagiarism also helps to sell her point that we have to think beyond single bad actors. Overall, I like the intentionality of even these elements that were played off as matters of style or taste, yet also build toward the video’s larger message.

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Update: the subtitles for the video have been fixed. Some of the timings were off and elements that I found distracting or redundant (ex. citation notes while the citation notes are also on screen) have been removed or edited.

I also realize that I do not state just how much the OVA Dallos diverges from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I stand by Dallos being the most faithful adaptation of the book, but even so, it takes the ideas in a different direction to the point that knowing how the book goes doesn’t spoil the movie. I don’t know if that warrants a note in the description, but it is something I am mulling over.

Policenauts & (The Moon is a) Harsh Mistress: The Gravity of Space

A comparison of two grounded science fiction stories, what they say about societies of control, and the limits of realistic fiction.

Policenauts Translation Project: http://policenauts.net/ World of Longplays: https://longplays.org/home.php NASA Space Visualization Studio: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Citations Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qWHfA87edc6jqy3HCrGHry__0vGsvciAAEZswdrQ_ZI/edit?usp=sharing

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Policenauts & (The Moon is a) Harsh Mistress: The Gravity of Space

A comparison of two grounded science fiction stories, what they say about societies of control, and the limits of realistic fiction.

Policenauts Translation Project: http://policenauts.net/ World of Longplays: https://longplays.org/home.php NASA Space Visualization Studio: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Citations Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qWHfA87edc6jqy3HCrGHry__0vGsvciAAEZswdrQ_ZI/edit?usp=sharing

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Monopoly (The Landlord's Game): Playing with Metaphors for Fun and Profiteering

A look at the board game Monopoly, the political game that inspired it, the political ideas it has spawned in its wake.

Related Websites, Videos:

The Landlord's Game - https://landlordsgame.info/index.html When Rivers Were Trails by indianlandtenure - https://indianlandtenure.itch.io/when... Polygon - Unboxing the hidden politics of SimCity -    • Unboxing the hidden politics of SimCity   Step Back - Native Americans Just Won Back MILLIONS of Acres -    • Native Americans Just Won Back MILLIO...   Tom Nicholas - Monopoly is Anti-Landlord Propaganda -    • Monopoly is Anti-Landlord Propaganda   Yellowhead Institute - #Landback: What does it mean & how do you enact it? -    • #LandBack: What does it mean & how do...  

Citations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H...

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Viy - Exorcizing Stalin from the USSR

Analysis of the Movie VIY (1967), its relationship to the Soviet period it was made within, and the larger connection to cultural “hauntings.”

Films Viy (1967) - https://youtu.be/4YmQn6q36HQ?si=pXALSWAFk2nsgkAc Battleship Potempkin (1925) - https://youtu.be/a_bkBbrdyyw?si=GlCul4L4lJic2HGh R.U.R. or Loss of Sensation (1935) - https://youtu.be/6GiBhKbYBcU?si=Htz04rluAz_62Cr5 Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (1944) - https://youtu.be/ZYOxxp_EVxc?si=UcxqaqLNUVAjAmMN Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 (1945*) - https://youtu.be/vnNgoS8VsoQ?si=qzxX2M_70UhUmy30 Solaris (1972) - https://youtu.be/Z8ZhQPaw4rE?si=H2IRMIGTD-MD6RS4

Texts: Nikolai Gogol - Viy (1835) - https://cafeliterarioba.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/viy-by-nikolai-gogol-cafc3a9-literario.pdf The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 - https://www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/theory/1930code.pdf Nikita Krushchev - The Secret Speech - https://www.marxists.org/archive/khrushchev/1956/02/24.htm Mark Fisher - Conspicuous force and Verminisation - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/008166.html

Additional Resources: Alexander Herbert – Fear before the Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Union https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/fear-before-fall-horror-films-late-soviet-union Horror Vanguard – 251 – Viy with Alexander Herbert! https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/251-viy-with-alexander-herbert Behind the Bastards – The Childhood of Joseph Stalin https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/the-childhood-of-joseph-stalin-57114487/ Mark Fisher – What is Hauntology? - https://memoirsoftheblind.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/hauntology.pdf

Buzzer and Bell Sound Effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

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