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Bookmark Radicalism Begins in the Body | Boston Review
Junot Díaz interviews science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany about what it means to be an aging sex radical and why he wrote the essay “Ash Wednesday.” Junot Díaz: Chip, “Ash…

June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark Literary fiction is borrowing the tools of the science fiction genre.
The worst thing about the present, if you’re an artist, is that it never stands still long enough. Once, perhaps, it lingered, back in the days when everyone communicated by letter…

June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments
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April 29 2017, 12:02pm | Comments
Bookmark Cyberpunk Through A Woman's Mirrored Lens | Neon Dystopia
Science fiction, cyberpunk included, has always been a bit of a boys club. Think of the names that we most readily associate with the genre. William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson,…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction
Science fiction tells us that a change in a past event, caused by the intervention of a time traveler, will open up a parallel timeline that leads to an alternate present.…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
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April 2 2017, 8:00am | Comments
Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments
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February 20 2017, 3:36pm | Comments
Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments
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October 27 2016, 7:05am | 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
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
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
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
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April 12 2016, 12:23am | 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 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 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
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
Bookmark Samuel R. Delany Speaks | The Nation
When he was 11, Samuel R. Delany stayed overnight at a Harlem hospital for observation. It was 1953, and nearly a decade before Delany would publish his first science-fiction novel. He…

August 29 2015, 3:33pm | Comments
Bookmark Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction - The…
In 1968, Samuel Delany attended the third annual Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

August 4 2015, 7:30am | Comments
Additivism The 3D Additivist Cookbook: Are You a 3D Printing Radical?

May 27 2015, 7:04am | Comments
Bookmark In the basement with transhumanism’s DIY cyberpunks
In a nondescript alleyway on Pittsburgh’s North Side, Nathan Kukulski arrives at a house party carrying two half-empty cases of beer. The place is called Cyberpunk Apocalypse, an experiment in communal…

April 27 2015, 7:04am | Comments
Bookmark Artificial stupidity can be just as dangerous as artificial intelligence.
The day that science fiction writers have feared for so long has finally come—the machines have risen up. There is nowhere you can run and nowhere you can hide.

April 13 2015, 1:14pm | Comments
Furtherfield Contributions Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

April 13 2015, 5:50am | Comments
Bookmark Ursula K. Le Guin: Capitalism is draining the earth, and Occupy isn't…
Ursula K. Le Guin, the perfect, inspirational 86-year-old science fiction author, has penned a new political essay that also serves as the introduction to political theorist Murray Bookchin's recent collection of…

April 1 2015, 3:46pm | Comments
Bookmark Prosthetic Knowledge:The 3D Additivist Manifesto Project
The 3D Additivist Manifesto Project from Moreshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke takes a Modernist direction to call for new art to be made with contemporary tools:The 3D Additivist Manifesto blurs the…

March 29 2015, 11:58pm | Comments
Bookmark New Left Review - Fredric Jameson: The Aesthetics of Singularity
An ontology of the present is a science-fictional operation, in which a cosmonaut lands on a planet full of sentient, intelligent, alien beings.

March 24 2015, 6:07pm | Comments

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