« The Neo Kaiju Project | Main | History of Social Software » GodzillaFest While blogging about Neo Kaiju, I ran across another great item: GodzillaFest in San Francisco, November 17-23. I became a fan of Godzilla culture after reading Mark Jacobson's great surreal novel Gojiro, a postnuclear monster fantasy that got into my head for a while. (In Jacobson's book the monster is a postmodern philosopher of sorts.) This set me thinking about the cultural symbolism of these monster flicks, how they represent uncontrollable chaos and destruction and the human need to make peace with unrelenting nature. Or perhaps I enjoyed watching guys in monster suits stomp carboard cities. Whatever the case, with a Godzilla resurgence sorta fits the retro 50s USA political scene, and the renewed threat of nuclear holocaust - though this is toy nuclear holocaust, bite-sized bursts emanating from terrorist suitcases. (In Gojiro the monster shrinks to fit his buddy Komodo's pocket.) [Link] jon posted this at 8:46 AM |
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