Odin’s Insights into 2001: A Space Odyssey

What does the Kubrickian masterpiece tell us about the future we inhabit?

Odin Halvorson
3 min readMar 30

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Kubrick’s earlier success of Dr. Strangelove catapulted the director into the public eye, but 2001: A Space Odyssey was by no means a perfect storm for critics or audiences in 1968. The slow pacing would become a hallmark Kubrickian artifact, but it tried the patience…

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Odin Halvorson

A futurist/socialist/fantasist writer, editor, and scholar. BFA/MFA. Free access to my articles at OdinHalvorson.substack.com | More over at OdinHalvorson.com.