Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

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The AI Says It’s an Enemy: Relinquishing Control to the Machine in Yukikaze

There is no shortage of television shows and films which place at center the question of human importance in the era of artificial intelligence. In film alone, the roots of this central question go back at least to Franz Lang’s expressionist film Metropolis (1927), with Maria’s robotic double wreaking havoc upon the titular city, a […]

A Tale of First Series: Heroism and Binaries in Record of Lodoss War

Heroism is something I find myself coming back to a lot in these especially trying times. After all, we hear about heroes from time to time, and yet so few of the stories we see are about heroic people. The hopelessness of that reality is hard to fathom even as I sit here contemplating a […]