“They’re not monsters, Lex. They’re just animals.” Dr. Alan Grant I had the opportunity this week to see Jurassic Park (1993) in the theater for the first time since I was in elementary school. The Steven Spielberg blockbuster was presented as part of series of “cult classics.” Considering the original success of the film and…
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The Last Dinosaur Book
W. J. T. Mitchell begins The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon (University of Chicago Press, 1998) by hypothesizing a post-human future, when visitors from another galaxy — imagined as erect bipedal reptiles — arrive on earth and attempt to reconstruct human life from the fossil remains. To these visitors,…