A great recent critical concept is @jordanscarroll.bsky.social's "hermeneutics of obtuseness," which he applies specifically to the way right-wingers read sf texts in favor of their views when those texts are clearly resistant to those views. A sort of reverse "reading against the grain."
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
Happened across this while doing research into neo-Nazi publications. I love a lot about Blade Runner, but there's no question that parts of that movie also really hit home for some of the worst people on Earth.
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