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It’s Not the Years, Honey, It’s the Mileage

#Dieselpunk didn’t start with a bang. It started with the crack of a whip.

Dieselpunk didn’t start with a bang. It started with the crack of a whip. When Indiana Jones blazed his way onto the big screen in 1981, he popularized a postmodern style of art that has continued to evolve over the past three decades. Looking back at Indy and the other proto-dieselpunk milestones, we can finally understand where the dieselpunk style came from, how it faltered in the late 1990s…

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Changing My Mind About Victorientalism

Changing My Mind About Victorientalism

This website, then known as The Gatehouse, gained some notoriety in 2010, when we dedicated an issue of our webzine, the Gatehouse Gazette, to “Victorientalism”. I subsequently defended this choice in a blog post that now strikes me as insensitive and in some places wrong. My assumption — that it is safe to recreate stereotypes from colonial times because those stereotypes, and the power…

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