Noticias La InsuperableMar 1

Los últimos y los primeros

¿Podría proyectarse el futuro de la humanidad a partir de una hipotética guerra entre Estados Unidos y China? Por Jorgelina Áster para NLI Con la insana desmesura de Trump siempre a la vista, es razonable sospechar que la mentada paciencia de los líderes chinos está al límite. Para peor, a Europa, entre la tragedia y la caricatura civilizatoria, se la percibe comatosa. Temer una guerra chino-estadounidense ya ha dejado de ser una fantasía especulativa. Si en 1933 Cadícamo creía […]

https://noticiaslainsuperable.com.ar/2026/03/01/los-ultimos-y-los-primeros/

Andi ChorleyJul 14, 2025

Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first. The book employs a narrative conceit that, under subtle inspiration, the novelist has unknowingly been dictated a channelled text from the last human species. - Wikipedia

A truly amazing, unique achievement which is not a novel in the normal sense of the word. It tells 2 billion years of human and transhuman history, and I can see how it has been a huge influence on many great science fiction authors.

#olafstapleton #lastandfirstmen #sciencefiction #futurehistory #penguinsciencefiction

Show threadDennis AJul 2, 2024

#LastAndFirstMen #AMCplus #Shudder #TildaSwinton
*Now on AMC+/Shudder
This Hypnotic, Apocalyptic Sci-Fi With 100% on Rotten Tomatoes Stuns Despite No Actors

"Focusing on the evolution of humanity through voice-over narration and stunning cinematography."
https://youtu.be/-dIe4h_t3x0?si=zCKINhuOQZCH6R2O

Johann Johannsson's Last and First Men - Official Trailer (2021) Tilda Swinton

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Dennis AJul 2, 2024

#LastAndFirstMen #AMCplus #Shudder #TildaSwinton
*Now on AMC+/Shudder
This Hypnotic, Apocalyptic Sci-Fi With 100% on Rotten Tomatoes Stuns Despite No Actors

"Focusing on the evolution of humanity through voice-over narration and stunning cinematography."
https://collider.com/last-and-first-men-movie/

Stvn_LomasJul 8, 2023
This has massive breadth and vision and has been hugely influential in SF. It isn't exciting or very personal but it does envision some original ideas. #GoodReads #Lastandfirstmen #SciFibooks #SF #OlafStapeldon
MaryAnn Johanson (she/her)Feb 10, 2023
#DailyStream: a warning from the distant future. Tilda Swinton speaks to us from billions of years from now in a cinematic tone poem contemplating the biggest, headiest issues that humanity ever confronts. #LastAndFirstMen finally streaming in US @Shudder @AMCPlus; @BFIPlayer UK
Show threadVihioJan 14, 2023

@stef193
Vedo che la scheda risale ormai a 10 anni fa ma questo ovviamente non ha nessun peso sul contenuto, che mi pare una ottima analisi di 1984. Faccio notare poi che l'ultimo uomo è pure il protagonista di un altro romanzo fantascientifico di un autore inglese, cioè Last and First Men (titolo dall'editore italiano trasformato in Infinito) di Olaf Stapledon uno dei grandi maestri della fantascienza mondiale.

#fantascienza #stapledon #infinito #lastandfirstmen

GaryNov 30, 2022

The Last and First Men

A beautiful and evocative piece of music by the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. A posthumously released work. Contributors included Yair Elazar Glotman, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Viktor Orri Árnason and the Theatre of Voices.

The film adds Tilda Swinton narrating edited quotes from the book by Olaf Stapleton. The film was shot by Sturla Grøvlen. Images of some of the large brutalist monuments that were erected in the former Yugoslavia, some of them set in quite spectacular landscapes. There are no humans (or their analogs) in the film, just their remains.

https://johannjohannsson.bandcamp.com/album/last-and-first-men-original-motion-picture-soundtrack

#music #film #JóhannJóhannsson #LastAndFirstMen #ScienceFiction #SciFI #Grief #YairElazarGlotman #HildurGuðnadóttir #ViktorOrriÁrnason #TheatreOfVoices #OlafStapleton

Last and First Men (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), by Jóhann Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Glotman

20 track album

Johann Johannsson