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• 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

• Bibliography Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre by SUVIN

  January 23 2013, 5:35am | Comments

• Bibliography The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality (Wiley Books for Writers) by Lee Gutkind

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• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Modern doublethink? What are some actual (non-fictional) modern, Orwellian / dystopian phrases?

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  Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

  November 11 2012, 9:23pm | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

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  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

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• Metafilter MeFi: Time for Teletubbies: Resistance is Futile Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction - how the BBC children's show reveals our posthuman future.

  September 5 2012, 12:58pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Time-wars’ by Mark Fisher

  Time rather than money is the currency in the recent science fiction film In Time. At the age of 25, the citizens in the future world the film depicts are given…

  August 14 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Ian Bogost on understanding what it's like to be a thing

  In a New Yorker essay a few weeks back, Laura Miller considered the various ways in which science fiction writers have imagined aliens, from the 18th century through today. Perhaps inevitably,…

  August 8 2012, 3:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?

  We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Energizing Futures: How SciFi Fuels Itself

  Virtual worlds. Terraforming complexes. Star-spanning generation ships. Science fiction is chock-full of massive technological artifacts born of humankind's desire to create, to explore. What do they all have in common? They…

  June 2 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Bibliography Dreams of Authority: Freud and the Fictions of the Unconscious by Ronald R. Thomas

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• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, (Part 3) : Adventures in the Dream…

  Philip K. Dick’s admittedly peculiar but passionately held worldview and the gnosticism it embodies does more than explain what some call the dystopian turn in science fiction from the 1960s onward,…

  May 23 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Post-Digitalism and Contemporary Spanish Fiction

  Postdigital literature is not centered in code, but in addressing a reality shaped by a mix of coded/uncoded reality – German Sierra (german_sierra)

  April 30 2012, 10:48am | Comments

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

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  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

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  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

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  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

• Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Toxoplasma is creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to…

  Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction…

  February 9 2012, 9:21am | Comments

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• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?

  The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy – rather like a long-term marriage. At the securely…

  October 12 2011, 9:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma)

  Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained…

  September 30 2011, 7:33am | Comments

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  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments

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  August 31 2011, 6:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Death Is Not the End (Long Live theory!)

  Was theory a gigantic hoax? On the contrary. It was the only salvation, for a twenty year period, from two colossal abdications by American thinkers and writers. From about 1975 to…

  August 18 2011, 1:48am | Comments

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• 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

• Bibliography Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre by SUVIN

  January 23 2013, 5:35am | Comments

• Bibliography The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality (Wiley Books for Writers) by Lee Gutkind

  January 23 2013, 5:35am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Modern doublethink? What are some actual (non-fictional) modern, Orwellian / dystopian phrases?

  November 12 2012, 1:03pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

  November 11 2012, 9:23pm | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Time for Teletubbies: Resistance is Futile Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction - how the BBC children's show reveals our posthuman future.

  September 5 2012, 12:58pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Time-wars’ by Mark Fisher

  Time rather than money is the currency in the recent science fiction film In Time. At the age of 25, the citizens in the future world the film depicts are given…

  August 14 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Ian Bogost on understanding what it's like to be a thing

  In a New Yorker essay a few weeks back, Laura Miller considered the various ways in which science fiction writers have imagined aliens, from the 18th century through today. Perhaps inevitably,…

  August 8 2012, 3:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?

  We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Energizing Futures: How SciFi Fuels Itself

  Virtual worlds. Terraforming complexes. Star-spanning generation ships. Science fiction is chock-full of massive technological artifacts born of humankind's desire to create, to explore. What do they all have in common? They…

  June 2 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Bibliography Dreams of Authority: Freud and the Fictions of the Unconscious by Ronald R. Thomas

  May 29 2012, 7:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, (Part 3) : Adventures in the Dream…

  Philip K. Dick’s admittedly peculiar but passionately held worldview and the gnosticism it embodies does more than explain what some call the dystopian turn in science fiction from the 1960s onward,…

  May 23 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Post-Digitalism and Contemporary Spanish Fiction

  Postdigital literature is not centered in code, but in addressing a reality shaped by a mix of coded/uncoded reality – German Sierra (german_sierra)

  April 30 2012, 10:48am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

• Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Toxoplasma is creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to…

  Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction…

  February 9 2012, 9:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?

  The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy – rather like a long-term marriage. At the securely…

  October 12 2011, 9:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma)

  Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained…

  September 30 2011, 7:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 31 2011, 6:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Death Is Not the End (Long Live theory!)

  Was theory a gigantic hoax? On the contrary. It was the only salvation, for a twenty year period, from two colossal abdications by American thinkers and writers. From about 1975 to…

  August 18 2011, 1:48am | Comments

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