Stanley Kubrick – Claire Corbett

April 11, 2014

The Last Space Waltz?

My essay on the relationship between the fantasy of human space exploration – 2001 – and the reality – NASA – and whether humans will ever leave geostationary orbit again, is published in Overland, Autumn 2014.

January 20, 2012

Review of Catch-22 on Kill Your Darlings

Like many great satires, the true subject of Catch-22 is violence done through manipulation of language. The insights of Catch-22 into war and bureaucracy have only grown in power during our never-ending War on Terror, with its ‘weapons of mass destruction’, its ‘extraordinary rendition’ and ‘redaction’. Ad man Heller knew that language is the main tool used by institutions to control their subjects, even if such control is ultimately backed with violence.