The Nuremberg Code was published in 1949 and is still a fundamental document guiding ethical behavior in research on human subjects that has been supplemented by additional guidelines and standards in most countries.

Little thought was given to how food systems intersect with other parts of the built environment such as the transportation system, or how a robust local or regional food system can boost local economies and support environmental and public health goals

Bill Gates.

Disney has traded the epistemic certaintyof the Lucas era for the post-authorial, post-mythopoeic multiplicity of thepost-Lucas Star Wars. As an initial outing, Rogue One suggests this strategywill be financially lucrative, but creatively bankrupt

ou’re just a corporation who’s in it to make as muchmoney as you can from these assets. And maybe that converges some-times with being the best custodian, and maybe sometimes it doesn’t;maybe sometimes you’ll go off and chase the quarterly profits at theexpense of long-term value. Meanwhile, I have no commercial interest init—therefore I’m a better custodian than you, I should have more say in itthat you do.

peoplewhose brains have been altered by a sinister conspiracy in order to ensureperfect loyalty ultimately overthrow the conspiracy’s dark masters, onthe grounds that only those with altered brains can be truly loyal to theconspiracy:

fun enough, but formulaic, and instantly forget-table

Unable to control the episteme of Star Wars with theauthority Lucas once wielded and unable to microtarget global blockbustersto suit the interests and desires of every possible fan demographic, Disney’sunique strategy with Rogue One has been to gesture to paratexts outside thefinal print and thereby invite Star Wars fans to remix and misrememberthe film in ways they find more pleasing.

Random shit”—quite a change from themythic, quasi-divine inspiration that ostensibly birthed the Old Star Wars!

Perhapsnot incidentally, much of the initial fan analysis of the film has found itselfnostalgic for the trailer, as opposed to appreciating the finished film—moreattached to the premediation than to the thing itself

exegesis

apocrypha

imprimatur

Contrary to the supposed expansion of the universe effected by theanthology films, then, Rogue One actually grants the saga films maximumpriority

Rogue One takes pains to inject itselfinto the continuity of the original films, even to an extent that some mightdescribe as painful, suturing itself to the old Star Wars saga even as it beginsthe process of ostensibly expanding and remaking it

The film also adds non-diegetic onscreentext to indicate on which planet each scene takes place, a new techniquefor the franchise

Disney’s lack of sovereign control over the StarWars episteme necessarily produces competing visions among fans who notonly understand themselves more as co-creators than as passive receiversof the franchise, but who now possess the digital tools to easily create anddistribute their own alternative visions of the franchise

All the Disney-era saga films havehad extensive periods of rewriting and reshooting,

Where once theprocess of adjudicating the canonicity of a given fact was in some senseautomatic—is it in the movies? did George say it?—it now requires morecomplex considerations among a much larger series of competing texts andauthors that will inevitably come into conflict with one another.

YouWon’t Live to See the Final Star Wars Movie,

mythopoeic

unitary megatext

They made her look like a ram, strong, willful.

carried on the backs of Asantes

Effia started tothink of him as a rain cloud: sallow and wet and shapeless

Nyame

Cobbe had lost seven yams, and he felt each loss as a blow to his ownfamily. He knew then that the memory of the fire that burned, then fled, would haunt him,his children, and his children’s children for as long as the line continued.