“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.” This month on “Talking Technophobia in Film,” we begin our exciting Second Season and a year-long discussion of the technological innovations and inherent fears found in some of the most pivotal Stanley Kubrick Films. So take care of your bodily fluids, as we turn our attention, in March, to Dr. Strangelove (1964). Review the contents of your survival kit, check on the status of the Doomsday Machine, and get ready to enact Plan R, as we learn to stop worrying and love the bomb!
We will touch upon the prophetic and predictive technologies, the paradoxes of deterrence, and the power of the death drive. Some themes will include the “mad scientist,” “machismo,” and “self preservation.”
