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The Last Starfighter (1984)

The Last Starfighter (1984)

Untimely review #2

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It’s been a bad week for video games. Malcolm Harris has been dunking on them on Twitter…Nintendo’s Switch 2 launch presentation had disastrous audio syncing problems1…I read Donna Haraway’s A Manifesto for Cyborgs…and it’s not even Friday yet! The timing works out that the philosopher-zoologist-socialist-feminist-theorist Haraway might have seen The Last Starfighter (1984) before she penned her Manifesto (1985). Or this could just be a case of a movie and a theoretical treatise both responding to the same material and cultural conditions and coming to very different conclusions about them. Either way, buckle in because (I am so sorry)…it’s time for some [video] game theory.

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