https://realitystudio.org A William S. Burroughs Community Fri, 03 Jan 2025 01:20:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://realitystudio.org/criticism/a-new-literature-for-the-space-age/comment-page-1/#comment-934909 Fri, 03 Jan 2025 01:20:01 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/criticism/a-new-literature-for-the-space-age/#comment-934909 I find this editorial quite refreshing. The seemingly darker sentiments of authors like Burroughs and Gibson tend to be indicative of the darker sentiments of society at large. There had never before been such a negative specter as the “Bomb,” and the possibility of annihilation on a global scale so real, that I am sure many thinking people, especially of that time, were trying to resolve these issues in a way that might not have been otherwise confirmed with popular media. Not everyone’s life is like “Leave It To Beaver.” I believe that in many ways our society is now a bit more used to these underlying feelings of morbidity, but it is still an undercurrent prevalent, especially amongst the younger generation. Gone are the days of the “Flash Gordon” and “Superman” type of characters, whose moral compass seemed to be indicative of an idealized composition of what our society wanted life to be, and not a realization of the horrors that could be.

]]> https://realitystudio.org/criticism/a-new-literature-for-the-space-age/comment-page-1/#comment-929936 Fri, 26 May 2023 16:03:17 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/criticism/a-new-literature-for-the-space-age/#comment-929936 good to see this = now the quest is on for that editorial …. New Worlds 142, May/June 1964 or indeed that short piece in Into the Media Web …

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