A post littlegreen42 made the other day got me thinking again about something I'd been thinking about the other day - academic books and The X Files. For the papers I'm writing I've been getting a lot of 'The Philosophy of...' books. A 'Philosophy of The X Files' book does exist. A 'Psychology of The X Files' book, however, doesn't. So guess who's now (semi- ( Read more... )

Title: Christ, Hamlet and Ralph Nader: Symbolism and Sacrifice in The X Files
Author: memories_child
Word count: 1816
A/N: Written for the 2010 round of xf_is_love. I'm writing this much later than I'd have liked to, and it's therefore shorter (and possibly less coherent) than I'd like it to be. There's so much I could say about The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati. ( Read more... )

A repost of my xf_is_love piece.

Title: Seeing is Believing: Reality, Truth and Fiction in Jose Chung’s From Outer Space
Author: memories_child
Word count: 4362
A/N: This essay is something I've wanted to write for a long time - since writing my 3rd year dissertation on reality and fiction, in fact, and referencing Jose Chung's in that. Writing it was something I really ( Read more... )