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Supplement: Denis Villeneuve, the White Savior of “Dune”

This is a supplement to my recently published essay on Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, at Washington Post:

Oct 29, 2021

Supplement: Denis Villeneuve, the White Savior of “Dune”

Oct 29, 2021

Gurney Halleck, the Moor; or, Othello in Space

The (apparent*) race-swapping of Liet Kynes, played by Sharon Duncan-Brewster in the 2021 Dune adaptation, is a well-known and contentious…

Oct 7, 2021

Gurney Halleck, the Moor; or, Othello in Space

Oct 7, 2021

Reading Children of Dune, Entry 3: Osiris, Drunk Sufism, & the Alam al-Mythal; Sophisticated…

I examine the origins of the Golden Path and its relations to the restoration of indigenous knowledge, by way of ancient Egyptian mythology…

Aug 2, 2021

Reading Children of Dune, Entry 3: Osiris, Drunk Sufism, & the Alam al-Mythal; Sophisticated…

Aug 2, 2021

Reading Children of Dune, Entry 2: Law & Modernity; Biblical Beasts & Jacurutu Origins; Herbert…

I dissect the relationship between law and modernity in the context of Fremen customs and ecology. I make a wild discovery (hitherto…

Jun 6, 2021

Reading Children of Dune, Entry 2: Law & Modernity; Biblical Beasts & Jacurutu Origins; Herbert…

Jun 6, 2021

Reading Children of Dune, Entry 1: Qur’anic Passages; Race & Fremen Customs; Tradition & Change (pp.

Over the coming weeks, I will post reading journal entries as I revisit Children of Dune (CoD). I remember next to nothing of the plot and…

Jun 3, 2021

Reading Children of Dune, Entry 1: Qur’anic Passages; Race & Fremen Customs; Tradition & Change (pp.

Jun 3, 2021

Revisiting Dune: Table of Contents

Over the coming months, I will post a series of essays as I reflect on the broader themes of Frank Herbert’s Dune novels and re/read them…

Jun 3, 2021

Revisiting Dune: Table of Contents

Jun 3, 2021

Revisiting Dune & Its Saviors: On the Thoughts to Come

Last year, I tweeted about Frank Herbert’s Dune and its apparent white savior problem. Unexpectedly, the Twitter thread went viral, and…

May 28, 2021

Revisiting Dune & Its Saviors: On the Thoughts to Come

May 28, 2021

Dune’s Not a White Savior Narrative. But It’s Complicated.

Do you think Dune is a white savior narrative? Well, you’re wrong.

Sep 11, 2020

Dune’s Not a White Savior Narrative. But It’s Complicated.

Sep 11, 2020

Sleepless in Trumptopia: PEN America, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Anders Breivik & the Left’s Freedom to Hate

Something in particular has, more than anything else, kept me up at night after the Trumpocalypse: Only days after the election, PEN…

Nov 19, 2016

Sleepless in Trumptopia: PEN America, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Anders Breivik & the Left’s Freedom to Hate

Nov 19, 2016

Haris Durrani

Haris Durrani

Author, Technologies of the Self. | PhD student @Princeton. JD, BS @Columbia. Law, history, technology. Outer space. Postcolonialism. Modernity. Dune.

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