{"id":14669,"date":"2015-01-15T00:41:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T00:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-fact-that-colonialism-is-so-central-to\/"},"modified":"2015-01-15T00:41:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T00:41:28","slug":"the-fact-that-colonialism-is-so-central-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-fact-that-colonialism-is-so-central-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The fact that colonialism is so central to science-fiction, and that science-fiction is so central to our own pop culture, suggests that the colonial experience remains more tightly bound up with our political life and public culture than we sometimes like to think. Sci-fi, then, doesn\u2019t just demonstrate future possibilities, but future limits\u2014the extent to which dreams of what we\u2019ll do remain captive to the things we\u2019ve already done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2014\/04\/why-sci-fi-keeps-imagining-the-enslavement-of-white-people\/361173\/\">Noah Berlatsky\u2019s\u00a0<em>Why Sci-Fi Keeps Imagining the Subjugation of White People<\/em><\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dakotacityukuleleorchestra.tumblr.com\/\">dakotacityukuleleorchestra<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that colonialism is so central to science-fiction, and that science-fiction is so central to our own pop culture, suggests that the colonial experience remains more tightly bound up with our political life and public culture than we sometimes like to think. Sci-fi, then, doesn\u2019t just demonstrate future possibilities, but future limits\u2014the extent to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3OB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}