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Culture as Metastasis

Even The Lord Of The Rings is a tumour cell now

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Mary Harrington
Feb 25, 2023
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Back in the late noughties, after my startup fell apart, I spent a few months working with a very avant-garde creator of the web 2.0 era, on a project spun out of an iconic and famous sci-fi movie. The movie’s director didn’t have the rights to his IP but wanted to continue developing projects in its fictional world; the business plan was to create a pl…

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