did you guys know that the robot genre of science fiction sprung up as a critique of the way in which industrialization reduced workers to taking up monotonous, unskilled factory jobs in order to earn profit, jobs which in turn alienated them from their own humanity? did you know that the theory of the alienation of the self under capitalistic mode of production is a core principle of marxism? did you know that robot itself comes from a czech playwright who, for a science fiction play, coined the word as a derivative of the czech term robota, meaning forced labor? did you know that the robot genre is rooted in anti-capitalist sentiment?
Tag: science
Always incredible to witness and capture something like this. Shoutout to everyone that pulled an all nighter to see this. Captured just outside of Wichita, Kansas.
Jupiter and its Great Red Spot, observed by the Voyager 2 space probe on July 3, 1979, from a distance of 6 million kilometers (3.72 million miles).
What a fuckin’ time to be alive.
Vincent Fournier; Space Project
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