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  October 27 2016, 7:05am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Masters of the Anthropocene Boundary | Generation Anthropocene

  It’s our 50th episode!  To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding whether or not we formally adopt the Anthropocene into the geologic time table.  We…

  October 6 2016, 9:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Sorry David Attenborough, We Didn't Evolve from "Aquatic Apes"--Here's Why - Scientific…

  The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Occasionally in science there are theories that refuse to die despite the overwhelming evidence…

  September 28 2016, 1:38am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter 'Zones' in science and weird fiction Looking for examples of science/weird fictions that deal with 'zones': intermediate or parallel realms - often forbidden - beyond the normal sphere of law or reason. ...of course there's 'Stalker' or 'Roadside Picnic' & echoes in the 2010 film 'Monsters' and Jeff VanderMeer's…

  September 21 2016, 6:22am | Comments

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  September 16 2016, 1:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Future According to Stanisław Lem

  In his 1971 novella The Futurological Congress, the Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem describes a group of futurologists who have gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica to stave off…

  September 14 2016, 7:50am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Download and print your own clitoris! Modelling and 3D printing an anatomically correct clitoris (Vimeo) . Sociologist Odile Fillod teamed up with photographer Marie Docher and digital mediator (and Blender user) Mélissa Richard (from the Cité des Sciences) to create the first downloadable, printable and open source 3D model…

  August 5 2016, 7:37pm | Comments

• Portfolio Embracing the Horror of The Anthropocence (plenary talk)

  August 3 2016, 4:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Transrealism: the first major literary movement of the 21st century? | Books…

  It’s not science fiction, it’s not realism, but hovers in the unsettling zone in between. From Philip K Dick to Stephen King, Damien Walter takes a tour through transrealism, the emerging…

  July 17 2016, 4:33am | Comments

• Portfolio Tate Series: Digital Thresholds: from Information to Agency (public event)

  May 17 2016, 7:23am | Comments

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  May 3 2016, 12:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Afrofuturism and Outsider Tech

  When we think about technology, most of us realize that it includes more than just gadgets and robotics, or the images of rockets and spaceships that filled 20th-century science fiction.

  April 17 2016, 6:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Did Humans Drive "Hobbit" Species to Extinction? - Scientific American

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Bookmark All of the Reasons Scientists Are Certain We Are Now Living in…

  “Human activity is leaving a pervasive and persistent signature on Earth.” So begins one of the more depressing scientific papers I’ve ever read.

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Africa Has Always Been Sci-Fi | Literary Hub

  Whence the “Afro” in “Afrofuturism”? In the 1994 interview with Samuel R.

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Brave new world? Sci-fi fears 'hold back progress of AI', warns expert…

  Chris Bishop fears concern over Terminator-style scenarios could deprive humanity of one of the most powerful technologies ever created The promise of artificial intelligence could be lost to humanity because people…

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

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  March 16 2016, 1:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient Humans May Have Left a Genetic Mark on Neanderthals Carl Zimmer…

  In 1997, scientists found the first scrap of Neanderthal DNA in a fossil. Since then, they have recovered genetic material, even entire genomes, from a number of Neanderthal bones, and their…

  February 17 2016, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Writing The Future From Science Fiction - OMNI Reboot

  Sometimes this failure of prediction is even science fiction's explicit subject. In Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series, for instance, a brilliant mathematician devises a method of calculating historical probabilities.

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Landscapes of Data Infection – BLDGBLOG

  There’s a fascinating Q&A in a recent issue of New Scientist with doctor and genetic researcher Karin Ljubic Fister. Fister studies “plant-based data storage,” which relies on a combination of artificially…

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

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  February 1 2016, 9:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Dialogical Avatar: a presentation with Donna Haraway&&& Journal

  as the central speaker and facilitator. Aside from the Cyborg Manifesto, it constitutes one of Haraway’s most extended engagements with science fiction, and with a specific work of science fiction cinema…

  January 14 2016, 5:42am | Comments

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  December 29 2015, 4:14pm | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism Workshop @ Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (Feb/March 2016)

  Additivism Workshop @ Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (Feb/March 2016)We are excited to announce a 2 day #Additivism Workshop as part of Sonic Acts Academy, Feb/March 2016 The Sonic Acts Academy relates to topics that are connected to the ‘dark matter’ theme Sonic Acts is currently…

  December 22 2015, 4:20am | Comments

• Tumblr samueldelany:Samuel Delany reviews the first Star Wars movie,...

  December 16 2015, 10:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ancillary Mercy reviewed: The final novel in Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch science…

  In an introduction to her 1969 science-fiction masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin sought to correct the assumption that science fiction is about the future.

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark The Rules of Quick and Dirty Worldbuilding

  Worldbuilding is the art of creating an alternate universe where the rules of present-day Earth life don't apply, and you have been appreciating that art for as long as you've been…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark 7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding

  Worldbuilding is an essential part of any work of fiction. But especially for science fiction or fantasy, it's the lifeblood of storytelling. But when worldbuilding fails, it can wreck your whole…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

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  October 20 2015, 10:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Fredric Jameson reviews ‘Time Travel’ by David Wittenberg · LRB 10 September…

  It is probably not immediately obvious what interest a new theoretical study of science fiction holds for the mainstream adepts of literary theory; and no doubt it is just as perplexing…

  September 6 2015, 5:18am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

  September 3 2015, 6:01am | Comments

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  October 27 2016, 7:05am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Masters of the Anthropocene Boundary | Generation Anthropocene

  It’s our 50th episode!  To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding whether or not we formally adopt the Anthropocene into the geologic time table.  We…

  October 6 2016, 9:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Sorry David Attenborough, We Didn't Evolve from "Aquatic Apes"--Here's Why - Scientific…

  The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Occasionally in science there are theories that refuse to die despite the overwhelming evidence…

  September 28 2016, 1:38am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter 'Zones' in science and weird fiction Looking for examples of science/weird fictions that deal with 'zones': intermediate or parallel realms - often forbidden - beyond the normal sphere of law or reason. ...of course there's 'Stalker' or 'Roadside Picnic' & echoes in the 2010 film 'Monsters' and Jeff VanderMeer's…

  September 21 2016, 6:22am | Comments

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  September 16 2016, 1:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Future According to Stanisław Lem

  In his 1971 novella The Futurological Congress, the Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem describes a group of futurologists who have gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica to stave off…

  September 14 2016, 7:50am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Download and print your own clitoris! Modelling and 3D printing an anatomically correct clitoris (Vimeo) . Sociologist Odile Fillod teamed up with photographer Marie Docher and digital mediator (and Blender user) Mélissa Richard (from the Cité des Sciences) to create the first downloadable, printable and open source 3D model…

  August 5 2016, 7:37pm | Comments

• Portfolio Embracing the Horror of The Anthropocence (plenary talk)

  August 3 2016, 4:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Transrealism: the first major literary movement of the 21st century? | Books…

  It’s not science fiction, it’s not realism, but hovers in the unsettling zone in between. From Philip K Dick to Stephen King, Damien Walter takes a tour through transrealism, the emerging…

  July 17 2016, 4:33am | Comments

• Portfolio Tate Series: Digital Thresholds: from Information to Agency (public event)

  May 17 2016, 7:23am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 3 2016, 12:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Afrofuturism and Outsider Tech

  When we think about technology, most of us realize that it includes more than just gadgets and robotics, or the images of rockets and spaceships that filled 20th-century science fiction.

  April 17 2016, 6:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Did Humans Drive "Hobbit" Species to Extinction? - Scientific American

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Bookmark All of the Reasons Scientists Are Certain We Are Now Living in…

  “Human activity is leaving a pervasive and persistent signature on Earth.” So begins one of the more depressing scientific papers I’ve ever read.

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Africa Has Always Been Sci-Fi | Literary Hub

  Whence the “Afro” in “Afrofuturism”? In the 1994 interview with Samuel R.

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Brave new world? Sci-fi fears 'hold back progress of AI', warns expert…

  Chris Bishop fears concern over Terminator-style scenarios could deprive humanity of one of the most powerful technologies ever created The promise of artificial intelligence could be lost to humanity because people…

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 12 2016, 12:23am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 16 2016, 1:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient Humans May Have Left a Genetic Mark on Neanderthals Carl Zimmer…

  In 1997, scientists found the first scrap of Neanderthal DNA in a fossil. Since then, they have recovered genetic material, even entire genomes, from a number of Neanderthal bones, and their…

  February 17 2016, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Writing The Future From Science Fiction - OMNI Reboot

  Sometimes this failure of prediction is even science fiction's explicit subject. In Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series, for instance, a brilliant mathematician devises a method of calculating historical probabilities.

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Landscapes of Data Infection – BLDGBLOG

  There’s a fascinating Q&A in a recent issue of New Scientist with doctor and genetic researcher Karin Ljubic Fister. Fister studies “plant-based data storage,” which relies on a combination of artificially…

  February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2016, 9:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Dialogical Avatar: a presentation with Donna Haraway&&& Journal

  as the central speaker and facilitator. Aside from the Cyborg Manifesto, it constitutes one of Haraway’s most extended engagements with science fiction, and with a specific work of science fiction cinema…

  January 14 2016, 5:42am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 29 2015, 4:14pm | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism Workshop @ Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (Feb/March 2016)

  Additivism Workshop @ Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (Feb/March 2016)We are excited to announce a 2 day #Additivism Workshop as part of Sonic Acts Academy, Feb/March 2016 The Sonic Acts Academy relates to topics that are connected to the ‘dark matter’ theme Sonic Acts is currently…

  December 22 2015, 4:20am | Comments

• Tumblr samueldelany:Samuel Delany reviews the first Star Wars movie,...

  December 16 2015, 10:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ancillary Mercy reviewed: The final novel in Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch science…

  In an introduction to her 1969 science-fiction masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin sought to correct the assumption that science fiction is about the future.

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark The Rules of Quick and Dirty Worldbuilding

  Worldbuilding is the art of creating an alternate universe where the rules of present-day Earth life don't apply, and you have been appreciating that art for as long as you've been…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark 7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding

  Worldbuilding is an essential part of any work of fiction. But especially for science fiction or fantasy, it's the lifeblood of storytelling. But when worldbuilding fails, it can wreck your whole…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 20 2015, 10:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Fredric Jameson reviews ‘Time Travel’ by David Wittenberg · LRB 10 September…

  It is probably not immediately obvious what interest a new theoretical study of science fiction holds for the mainstream adepts of literary theory; and no doubt it is just as perplexing…

  September 6 2015, 5:18am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

  September 3 2015, 6:01am | Comments

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