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2001: A Space Odyssey
Author: Stanley Kubrick
Year: 1968 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
2001: A Space Odyssey
Author: Stanley KubrickYear: 1968 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
This great sheet of windows, with its gravity-defying two-dimensionality, momentarily transforms the solid ground on which we stand into the contents of a stereopticon, pasteboard shapes profiling themselves here and there around us. The visual effect is the same from all sides: as fateful as the great monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 which confronts its viewers like an enigmatic destiny, a call to evolutionary mutation.
This great sheet of windows, with its gravity-defying two-dimensionality, momentarily transforms the solid ground on which we stand into the contents of a stereopticon, pasteboard shapes profiling themselves here and there around us. The visual effect is the same from all sides: as fateful as the great monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 which confronts its viewers like an enigmatic destiny, a call to evolutionary mutation.
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