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THE UNIVERSE PART 1A
Or How To Navigate the Universe.
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Peter Thomas Lang
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March 2024

"Zero misplaced the 13th century" Rollerball and the endgame of Artificial Intelligence.
In 1973 the film Soylent Green predicted food scarcities under the effects of Greenhouse warming; but I hadn't realized that the 1975 film Rollerball…
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Peter Thomas Lang
Dune Part 2: Superstudio on Spice.
It was not just Carlo Scarpa and other odd Japanese sources that made their way into Dune Part 2, but also the Italian Radical Design group Superstudio…
Space-Time Warp: Going from Japan to Italy to Planet Kaitain. A Dune of a Journey.
How the Italian fascination with Japan gets its due in Dune Part 2.
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Peter Thomas Lang

February 2024

Riccardo Dalisi: Street Forward Radical Design
The exhibition at the MAXXI Museum in Rome celebrates the creative designs and educational experiments of Naples' finest Radical, one year after his…
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Peter Thomas Lang
Tolkien: Hobbit, Wizard, Scribe.
The exhibition Tolkien: Man, Professor, Author, ends its run at the GNAM in Rome on February 11, 2024. This is my review.
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Peter Thomas Lang
The Castle that Pasolini Built
Torre di Chia, Chia, Lazio.
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Peter Thomas Lang
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October 2023

April 2023

Life on P.O.P. the Planet of Planets. Episode 5
The new beginning on P.O.P. and the trouble with getting the message out.
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Peter Thomas Lang
Life on P.O.P. the Planet of Planets. Episode 4
Why there are few signs of advanced technologies on P.O.P. and why artificial intelligence has by and large disappeared from the surface of the planet.
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Peter Thomas Lang
Life on P.O.P. the Planet of Planets. Episode 3
On how such an exquisite celestial body survives without a capitalist economy.
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Life on P.O.P: the Planet of Planets. Episode 2
Or how R. U. Reddy, the astronaut concealed inside the little red spacesuit, begins to understand what kind of planet this really is.
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Peter Thomas Lang
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