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“… ‘making HYPERSPACE’ has to do with achieving a utopian energy, perhaps an energy not based on the deadly burning of fossil fuels, a more benevolent form of human coexistence with one another and with other life-forms.”
“We are moving from a regime of penetration to one of circlusion […] as if space itself were sucking the ships into it-circluding them in its warp, a word that suggests the feminized activity of weaving and its soft, winding, twisting fabrics, rather than the straight and narrow grids of Cartesian space. In the Star Wars series, when a vessel enters HYPERSPACE, they disappear, exactly as if they had been enveloped by a thick medium that makes them invisible. Warping, the thing that the Norns do, the Norse female beings entwining us in the web of fate. The word weird is derived from the old Norse urthr, which means twisted into a loop. Weirdness, "fate," and the deja-vu-like feeling that it's happening, is the twisting of twine into a loop-the thing western civilization has been trying to straighten out into "fate" as a matter of fact. Fate is set in stone and mechanical, you can't stop it. Weirdness is twisted and strange and knowing. Warp drive, metaphorically speaking, requires weirdness.”
“the Death Star is an open-plan office, […] Lounges are quite different. Lounges allow you to conceal stuff. You aren't automatically under surveillance. The emphasis is leisure rather than labor. Moreover, the Falcon is a lounge in which you can travel to another kind of lounge. Sounds cozy, doesn't it? But, in a strange way, this lounge is to be found inside the Falcon. Despite this living room's size-it is the size of the universe-you can't get there any other way than by climbing aboard. No wonder when you find it, you sit down in the Falcon's lounge and play chess. Its name may surprise you: this lounge is called HYPERSPACE.”
