how Dune shows us the power of language – including sign language
- Written by Gemma King, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, ARC DECRA Fellow in Screen Studies, Australian National University
Courtesy Warner Bros. PicturesIn Dune’s sandswept colonialist dystopia of the distant future, power is a force best handled – and transferred – surreptitiously. In a world of ultra-wealthy spice barons and interplanetary warfare, the greatest asset in both diplomacy and resistance is an intangible one: language. Nowhere is this...





