MachineMachine /stream - tagged with the https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[John Carpenter’s THE THING is More Lovecraftian Than You Thought - Nerdist]]> https://nerdist.com/article/john-carpenters-the-thing-lovecraftian-35-anniversary/

In the 35 years since John Carpenter‘s first big studio movie, 1982’s The Thing, which he made for Universal, was released, it’s metamorphosed from flop to underground classic in the horror genre.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:54 -0800 https://nerdist.com/article/john-carpenters-the-thing-lovecraftian-35-anniversary/
<![CDATA[The humanist left must challenge the rise of cyborg socialism]]> https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2018/04/humanist-left-must-challenge-rise-cyborg-socialism

Undiagnosed by the mainstream media and much of the academic community, a major intellectual renewal is underway across the left. It is energetic and tech-savvy, building platforms such as Novara Media.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:11 -0800 https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2018/04/humanist-left-must-challenge-rise-cyborg-socialism
<![CDATA[The Closing of the Scientific Mind - David Gelernter, Commentary Magazine]]> https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/david-gelernter/the-closing-of-the-scientific-mind/

The huge cultural authority science has acquired over the past century imposes large duties on every scientist. Scientists have acquired the power to impress and intimidate every time they open their mouths, and it is their responsibility to keep this power in mind no matter what they say or do.

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Thu, 08 Apr 2021 05:55:18 -0700 https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/david-gelernter/the-closing-of-the-scientific-mind/
<![CDATA[Is Westernisation fact or fiction? The case of Japan and the US | Aeon Essays]]> https://aeon.co/essays/is-westernisation-fact-or-fiction-the-case-of-japan-and-the-us

In 1860, Fukuzawa Yukichi, a young Japanese student still learning English himself, accompanied the first ever Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States as its English interpreter.

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Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:55:58 -0700 https://aeon.co/essays/is-westernisation-fact-or-fiction-the-case-of-japan-and-the-us
<![CDATA["The world has become weird": crisis, natures and radical re-enchantment - STEPS Centre]]> https://steps-centre.org/blog/the-world-has-become-weird-crisis-natures-and-radical-re-enchantment/

In this essay, Amber Huff and Nathan Oxley reflect on questions that have emerged through Natures, the STEPS Centre’s theme throughout 2020.

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Mon, 18 Jan 2021 06:55:11 -0800 https://steps-centre.org/blog/the-world-has-become-weird-crisis-natures-and-radical-re-enchantment/
<![CDATA[Why 'The Fly' Is Still a Body Horror Masterpiece]]> https://nofilmschool.com/the-fly-jeff-goldblum-video

The set-up for David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly is straightforward enough. The handsome, eccentric scientist Seth (Jeff Goldblum) is trying to perfect a teleportation device.

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Sun, 01 Mar 2020 19:17:26 -0800 https://nofilmschool.com/the-fly-jeff-goldblum-video
<![CDATA[Hong Kong winner of John W. Campbell sci-fi award stands by ‘fascist’ comments as new name for accolade is considered | South China Morning Post]]> https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3024530/hong-kong-winner-john-w-campbell-sci-fi-award-stands-fascist

Hong Kong science fiction author Jeannette Ng became the city’s first to receive the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer last Sunday in Dublin, Ireland, but not without calling out the influential sci-fi writer whom the award is named after as a fascist. “John W.

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Wed, 11 Sep 2019 04:28:26 -0700 https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3024530/hong-kong-winner-john-w-campbell-sci-fi-award-stands-fascist
<![CDATA[Extinction Rebellion: Not the Struggle we Need, Pt. 1]]> https://libcom.org/blog/extinction-rebellion-not-struggle-we-need-pt-1-19072019

The first of a three-part critique of Extinction Rebellion, focussing on their attitudes towards the police, legal system and prison. Out of the Woods are utterly convinced of the need for action addressing ecological crisis by any means necessary. But not all means are necessary.

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Sat, 20 Jul 2019 11:10:24 -0700 https://libcom.org/blog/extinction-rebellion-not-struggle-we-need-pt-1-19072019
<![CDATA[Watch: Here Are All The Ways Your City Is Surveilling You - Motherboard]]> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwmpm7/ways-your-city-is-surveilling-you-police-government-surveillance

If you live in a major metropolitan area, the odds are good you’re being watched and listened to at all times. And even if you don’t, that surveillance technology is still there—in stores, on cop cars, in schools and stop lights.

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Sat, 07 Jul 2018 08:32:40 -0700 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwmpm7/ways-your-city-is-surveilling-you-police-government-surveillance
<![CDATA[John Carpenter’s THE THING is More Lovecraftian Than You Thought | Nerdist]]> https://nerdist.com/john-carpenters-the-thing-lovecraftian-35-anniversary/

In the 35 years since John Carpenter‘s first big studio movie, 1982’s The Thing, which he made for Universal, was released, it’s metamorphosed from flop to underground classic in the horror genre.

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Sat, 07 Jul 2018 08:32:35 -0700 https://nerdist.com/john-carpenters-the-thing-lovecraftian-35-anniversary/
<![CDATA[Practical Magic: Assimilating John Carpenter’s The Thing | VHS Revival]]> https://vhsrevival.com/2017/09/22/practical-magic-assimiliating-john-carpenters-the-thing-cedric-smarts/

In an era of countless reboots, we have come to regard the whole process as a cynical exercise whose primary goal is to slash expenditure, but that was not always the case. There was a time when remaking movies was about taking a classic conception and upgrading it to meet modern standards.

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Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:18:13 -0700 https://vhsrevival.com/2017/09/22/practical-magic-assimiliating-john-carpenters-the-thing-cedric-smarts/
<![CDATA[The humanist left must challenge the rise of cyborg socialism]]> https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/04/humanist-left-must-challenge-rise-cyborg-socialism

Undiagnosed by the mainstream media and much of the academic community, a major intellectual renewal is underway across the left. It is energetic and tech-savvy, building platforms such as Novara Media.

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Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:34:14 -0700 https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/04/humanist-left-must-challenge-rise-cyborg-socialism
<![CDATA[The Google Arts & Culture App and the Rise of the “Coded Gaze”]]> https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-google-arts-and-culture-app-and-the-rise-of-the-coded-gaze-doppelganger/amp?__twitter_impression=true

A few days ago, I came across an old post on the Web site Bored Panda called “10+ Times People Accidentally Found Their Doppelgängers in Museums and Couldn’t Believe Their Eyes.” The post consisted of around thirty photos of people posing with portraits whose subjects looked eerily like them.

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Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:43:21 -0800 https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-google-arts-and-culture-app-and-the-rise-of-the-coded-gaze-doppelganger/amp?__twitter_impression=true
<![CDATA[Space and myth in a body horror - Mythogeography]]> http://www.mythogeography.com/space-and-myth-in-a-body-horror.html

It might seem strange that a mythogeographer would be very interested in an action-horror movie from 1982, panned at the time of its release and largely ignored by audiences.

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Tue, 27 Jun 2017 03:50:43 -0700 http://www.mythogeography.com/space-and-myth-in-a-body-horror.html
<![CDATA[The Men Who Were ‘The Thing’ Look Back on a Modern Horror Classic | Village Voice]]> https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/10/13/the-men-who-were-the-thing-look-back-on-a-modern-horror-classic/

The Thing died a noisy death when it debuted in 1982. In fact, this masterful paranoiac thriller about a vicious shape-shifting alien infiltrating a group of scientists stationed in Antarctica bombed so hard that director John Carpenter was fired from his follow-up gig working on Firestarter.

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Mon, 26 Jun 2017 05:50:25 -0700 https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/10/13/the-men-who-were-the-thing-look-back-on-a-modern-horror-classic/
<![CDATA[Against Nick Land and the Reactive Left — ANON - Frontpage - e-flux conversations]]> http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/against-nick-land-and-the-reactive-left-anon/6347

The William Buckley debates was political discourse at its finest. Although watching Norman Mailer throwing shade at Gore Vidal is entertaining, James Baldwin taking Buckley to task holds a special place in our hearts.

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Mon, 03 Apr 2017 04:54:31 -0700 http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/against-nick-land-and-the-reactive-left-anon/6347
<![CDATA[The Future Of Body Horror: Can Our Art Keep Up With Our Suffering? - The Rumpus.net]]> http://therumpus.net/2017/01/the-future-of-body-horror-can-our-art-keep-up-with-our-suffering/

You see, what we’re talkin’ about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates ‘em perfectly. –Dr. Blair, The Thing

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Sat, 11 Mar 2017 17:21:16 -0800 http://therumpus.net/2017/01/the-future-of-body-horror-can-our-art-keep-up-with-our-suffering/
<![CDATA[Writers of Color Continue to Wrestle With Lovecraft’s Racist Legacy | WIRED]]> https://www.wired.com/2017/01/geeks-guide-writers-of-color-lovecraft/

H.P. Lovecraft is universally acknowledged as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, and references to his Cthulhu Mythos abound in contemporary culture. But Lovecraft was also quite racist, a fact made clear in his voluminous correspondence.

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Fri, 13 Jan 2017 05:50:46 -0800 https://www.wired.com/2017/01/geeks-guide-writers-of-color-lovecraft/
<![CDATA[The suspense is better than the horror in John Carpenter’s The Thing · Scenic Routes · The A.V. Club]]> http://www.avclub.com/article/suspense-better-horror-john-carpenters-thing-244844

In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean. Every year around this time, I find myself pondering the thin line between horror and suspense.

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Fri, 04 Nov 2016 07:07:10 -0700 http://www.avclub.com/article/suspense-better-horror-john-carpenters-thing-244844
<![CDATA[A new dating sim highlights the pickup artist's ugly game of seduction - Kill Screen]]> https://killscreen.com/articles/woman-fighting-pickup-artists-ugly-game-seduction/

The dating sim has been experiencing something of a reexamining of late, finding itself in the broader public eye as iterations upon its core tenants are warped, distorted, and pushed past their typical use cases.

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Thu, 27 Oct 2016 12:48:10 -0700 https://killscreen.com/articles/woman-fighting-pickup-artists-ugly-game-seduction/