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Battlestar Galactic and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up?
June 18, 2008, Open Court/Carus Publishing
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in English
- First edition
0812696433 9780812696431
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First Sentence
""Act of Contrition" was the first script that Bradley Thompson and I wrote for Battlestar Galactica."
Table of Contents
ix.
Foreword
Page David Weddle
xiii.
“I Dare You to Watch This Show!”
Page Josef Steiff
xviii.
Acknowledgments
1.
MODEL ONE: Some Are Programmed to Think They Are Human
Page Ronald D. Moore
3.
The Narrative Disruptions of Model Eight
Page Daniel Milsky
17.
Frak-tured Postmodern Lives, Or, How I Found Out I Was a Cylon
Page Paul Booth
29.
The Avatar and the Ego: Reconciling Ourselves with Videogames
Page Luke Cuddy
39.
Gothic Anxiety
Page Luke Cuddy
49.
Am I a Cylon? Self-Knowledge at the Crossroads
Page Luke Cuddy
61.
MODEL TWO: They Look Like Us Now
Page Ronald D. Moore
63.
Kiss Me, Now Die!
Page Magali Rennes
77.
I Frak, Therefor I Am
Page Jennifer Harwood-Smith
87.
The C-Word: Queering the Cyclons
Page Shira Chess
95.
I, Cyborg
Page Shana Heinricy
103.
I am a Cylon
Page Richard Hanley
115.
MODEL THREE: We Became What We Beheld
Page William “Husker” Adams
117.
You Can’t Rape a Machine
Page Amy Kind
129.
Knowing We’re Frakked: Democracy and Bad Decisions
Page Tristan D. Tamplin
143.
The Razor’s Edge: Galactica, Pegasus and Lakoff
Page Sara Livingston
155.
Some Cylons are More Equal Than Others
Page Hal Shipman
163.
They Evolved, but Do They Deserve Consideration?
Page John Scott Gray
171.
MODEL FOUR: Battlestar Iraqtica
Page Ronald D. Moore
173.
Playing with Fire Without Getting Burned: Blow-Back Re-Imagined
Page Isabel Pinedo
185.
The Wretched of New Caprica
Page Dan Dinello
201.
Choosing Sides: Occupation or Resistance?
Page Ian M. Peters
211.
Secrets and Lies: Balancing Security and Democracy in the Colonial Fleet
Page Louis Melançon
221.
Weapons of Mass Salvation
Page Bryan McHenry
233.
SALTed Popcorn: The Original Battlestar Galactica in Historical Context
Page John Kenneth Muir
247.
MODEL FIVE: Finding Purpose in the Void
Page Lee “Apollo” Adama
249.
33, 34, 35 … The Life of the Limits
Page Jean-Paul Martinon
261.
Lost in Space? Finding Your Way Without a Map
Page Trudy Milburn
271.
Free Will, Determinism and Schopenhauer (Oh, My!)
Page Bryan C. Barker
281.
Living in the Watchtower
Page Christopher Christian
289.
The Meaning of a Deathless Life
Page David Vessie
301.
MODEL SIX: Near the End of Our Journey
Page Ronald D. Moore
303.
Why Your Mormon Neighbor Knows More About This Show Than You Do
Page Ivan Wolfe
317.
DINO or Dialogic: What Does “Re-Imagined” Really Mean?
Page Richard Berger
329.
The Real War Between Battlestar Galacticas
Page Richard Berger
337.
A Dangerous Place for Women
Page Ewan Kirkland
349.
Eve, Lilith and the Cylon Connection
Page Heather Rolufs
359.
Dreamers in the Night
Page Heather Rolufs
369.
Coduction: Cylons, Colonials and Criticism
Page Heather Rolufs
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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