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  September 16 2014, 2:00am | Comments

• Bookmark » Interview with Thomas Ligotti The Teeming Brain

  Published in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2006) Some books and authors come into your life at precisely the right moment.

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 15 2014, 3:28pm | Comments

• Portfolio Internet of Our Dreams

  March 30 2014, 2:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Ray Kurzweil is Wrong: Computers Won’t Be Smarter Than Us Anytime…

  “When Kurzweil first started talking about the “singularity”, a conceit he borrowed from the science-fiction writer Vernor Vinge, he was dismissed as a fantasist.

  March 18 2014, 12:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to hide from Big Brother | Dazed

  If Facebook can tag you, so can the government. Big Brother has never mere fiction, but thanks to improved technologies, the Orwellian lens has never been sharper. Janus, a recently launched…

  March 7 2014, 1:36am | Comments

• Bookmark How to hide from Big Brother | Dazed

  If Facebook can tag you, so can the government. Big Brother has never mere fiction, but thanks to improved technologies, the Orwellian lens has never been sharper. Janus, a recently launched…

  March 7 2014, 1:27am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 9:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

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  On the mutual influnce of science fiction and innovation http://t.co/kcf1zwyqb3

  January 11 2014, 5:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution of the mutant in popular fiction

  Update: I’ve been working on expanding this timeline into a book. I’m currently in the research phase, but you can read my notes here. They are generally more up-to-date and correct…

  December 29 2013, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Entering Posthumanism: Ihab Hassan and Neil Badmington | Simulation Space

  In “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?” Ihab Hassan uses the metaphor of the mythological Prometheus to frame his discussion on posthumanism and positions him as a trickster with a…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Today, cyber means war.

  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

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  November 20 2013, 7:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Google’s Earth

  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Projects This Mess is a Place

  October 26 2013, 11:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Can the multiverse explain human history? – Andrew Crumey – Aeon

  Andy Murray’s unexpectedly strong start against Roger Federer in the Wimbledon 2012 final put the Daily Telegraph columnist Matthew Norman in a science-fiction mood.

  September 18 2013, 6:12am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Beyond Google Glass: Good writings on Augmented Reality I want to read about Augmented Reality. Tech developments IRL; techno-utopian / transhuman dreams, and hard-fought aspirations; and any sci-fictional dystopian nightmares you know of. Articles and academic papers especially welcome, but what sci-fi stories have dealt imaginatively with Augmented Reality? Where's it…

  September 4 2013, 6:33am | Comments

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  The Science Fiction of Everyday Objects

  

  August 23 2013, 7:52am | Comments

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  100 Science Fiction Films by Barry Keith Grant – review | Books | The Guardian

  August 9 2013, 12:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Future, Probably – The New Inquiry

  Clichés crop up for a reason. It has become one to say of William Gibson’s near-future novels that he has a genius for picking out the seeds of future in the…

  July 14 2013, 4:40pm | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 3:12am | Comments

• Portfolio The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 4:16am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

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  Abstract Encounters: a Modern Media Simulation | Alien Fiction

  May 16 2013, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark how to write drone fiction | THE STATE

  Earlier this week, Teju Cole posted seven short stories about drones on his twitter account. Here they are, reprinted from The New Inquiry: 1. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the…

  February 21 2013, 4:08pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: A literary character with the actual power to kill How To Write Drone Fiction: "One can easily and self-righteously claim the merits of writing non-fiction about drones by asserting a primacy of fact over “false fiction”. The problem is that one does not write non-fiction about drones."

  February 20 2013, 12:15pm | Comments

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• Twitter

  from science fiction to science fiction

  

  September 16 2014, 2:00am | Comments

• Bookmark » Interview with Thomas Ligotti The Teeming Brain

  Published in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2006) Some books and authors come into your life at precisely the right moment.

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 15 2014, 3:28pm | Comments

• Portfolio Internet of Our Dreams

  March 30 2014, 2:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Ray Kurzweil is Wrong: Computers Won’t Be Smarter Than Us Anytime…

  “When Kurzweil first started talking about the “singularity”, a conceit he borrowed from the science-fiction writer Vernor Vinge, he was dismissed as a fantasist.

  March 18 2014, 12:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to hide from Big Brother | Dazed

  If Facebook can tag you, so can the government. Big Brother has never mere fiction, but thanks to improved technologies, the Orwellian lens has never been sharper. Janus, a recently launched…

  March 7 2014, 1:36am | Comments

• Bookmark How to hide from Big Brother | Dazed

  If Facebook can tag you, so can the government. Big Brother has never mere fiction, but thanks to improved technologies, the Orwellian lens has never been sharper. Janus, a recently launched…

  March 7 2014, 1:27am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 9:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On the mutual influnce of science fiction and innovation http://t.co/kcf1zwyqb3

  January 11 2014, 5:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution of the mutant in popular fiction

  Update: I’ve been working on expanding this timeline into a book. I’m currently in the research phase, but you can read my notes here. They are generally more up-to-date and correct…

  December 29 2013, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Entering Posthumanism: Ihab Hassan and Neil Badmington | Simulation Space

  In “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?” Ihab Hassan uses the metaphor of the mythological Prometheus to frame his discussion on posthumanism and positions him as a trickster with a…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Today, cyber means war.

  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 20 2013, 7:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Google’s Earth

  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Projects This Mess is a Place

  October 26 2013, 11:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Can the multiverse explain human history? – Andrew Crumey – Aeon

  Andy Murray’s unexpectedly strong start against Roger Federer in the Wimbledon 2012 final put the Daily Telegraph columnist Matthew Norman in a science-fiction mood.

  September 18 2013, 6:12am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Beyond Google Glass: Good writings on Augmented Reality I want to read about Augmented Reality. Tech developments IRL; techno-utopian / transhuman dreams, and hard-fought aspirations; and any sci-fictional dystopian nightmares you know of. Articles and academic papers especially welcome, but what sci-fi stories have dealt imaginatively with Augmented Reality? Where's it…

  September 4 2013, 6:33am | Comments

• Twitter

  The Science Fiction of Everyday Objects

  

  August 23 2013, 7:52am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  100 Science Fiction Films by Barry Keith Grant – review | Books | The Guardian

  August 9 2013, 12:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Future, Probably – The New Inquiry

  Clichés crop up for a reason. It has become one to say of William Gibson’s near-future novels that he has a genius for picking out the seeds of future in the…

  July 14 2013, 4:40pm | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 3:12am | Comments

• Portfolio The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 4:16am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Abstract Encounters: a Modern Media Simulation | Alien Fiction

  May 16 2013, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark how to write drone fiction | THE STATE

  Earlier this week, Teju Cole posted seven short stories about drones on his twitter account. Here they are, reprinted from The New Inquiry: 1. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the…

  February 21 2013, 4:08pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: A literary character with the actual power to kill How To Write Drone Fiction: "One can easily and self-righteously claim the merits of writing non-fiction about drones by asserting a primacy of fact over “false fiction”. The problem is that one does not write non-fiction about drones."

  February 20 2013, 12:15pm | Comments

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