Jack Graham

The Cybermen, The Borg, Capitalism, Collectivism, and the Gothic The literature of terror is born precisely out of the terror of a split society and out of the desire to heal it. - Franco Moretti 0. Introduction People often compare the Borg, the cyborg gestalt from the Star Trek franchise, to Docto

This is a slightly edited and rewritten version of something I posted at the old blog years ago. Since I'm thinking about Star Trek at the moment... * The Federation is supposedly post-capitalist, post-money, etc., yet it has many of the important hallmarks of advanced capitalist social organisation

On Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Season 1 Episode 19: 'Duet' (1993) I wrote this for the forthcoming collection of DS9 essays from ATB Publishing Outside In Can Live With It. This is D1. A version of this will appear in the finished collection but it'll probably be shorter. * In 1985, a prosperous, middl