{"id":9046,"date":"2018-08-16T16:13:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T15:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9046"},"modified":"2018-08-28T14:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T13:24:03","slug":"paul-march-russell-on-trumps-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/08\/16\/paul-march-russell-on-trumps-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul March-Russell on Trump\u2019s Space Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/march-russell.html\">Dr Paul March-Russell<\/a>, Specialist Associate Lecturer in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a>\u00a0and editor of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sf-foundation.org\/publications\/index.html\">Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction<\/a><\/em>, has contributed an article to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/uk\">The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0on US President Donald Trump\u2019s plans for a \u2018Space Force\u2019 from a science-fiction perspective, published today 16 August 2018.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Conversation\u00a0<\/em>is an independent website consisting of news and views sourced from the academic and research community, and delivered direct to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The rhetoric of both Pence and Trump, referring respectively to \u201cthe boundless expanse of space\u201d and the necessity for \u201cAmerican dominance\u201d, is inherently science-fictional, but of a particularly American kind,\u2019 explains Paul in the article, who places the language and ideas in the context of the traditions of American science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing Trump\u2019s Space Force plans to Reagan\u2019s earlier Strategic Defence Initiative in the 1980s, which became known as \u2018Star Wars\u2019, Paul concludes \u2018what we can deduce from the proposal is that we are firmly in the logic of the reboot, that much loved tactic of longrunning movie franchises.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/donald-trumps-space-force-plans-analysed-by-a-sci-fi-expert-101549\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/donald-trumps-space-force-plans-analysed-by-a-sci-fi-expert-101549<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Paul March-Russell, Specialist Associate Lecturer in the\u00a0Department of Comparative Literature\u00a0and editor of\u00a0Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, has contributed an article to\u00a0The Conversation\u00a0on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/08\/16\/paul-march-russell-on-trumps-space-force\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":9049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9065,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046\/revisions\/9065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}