Starting the day with "Postcolonialism in Late 1980s Dr Who".
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(I remember a talk a couple of years back arguing for early Dr Who as an embodiment of British post-imperial self image - clever but not powerful, good with words, accepted in all kinds of places...)
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Science Fiction as a genre originating in colonialism and its technologies (weapons, transport, communications, racialized biology) though not necessarily supporting them.
Early SF ideas of 'progress' as "a technological regime that affects and ensures the global control system of de-nationalised communication" - Csicsery-Ronay
(Picking up that last quote as a useful gloss on Kipling's "With the Night Mail" and "As Easy as ABC".)
Recent Dr Who's deracialised cosmopolitanism as "so many coloured jelly babies inside a colourless (white) paper bag". - Orthia (2010)
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