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• Bookmark Weird realism: John Gray on the moral universe of H P Lovecraft

  The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas…

  March 30 2015, 8:57am | 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

• Bookmark Moxon's Master/Bierce

  I got no immediate reply; Moxon was apparently intent upon the coals in the grate, touching them deftly here and there with the fire-poker till they signified a sense of his…

  December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments

• Bookmark The Thing set on survival | Anne Billson | Film | The…

  Antarctica, 1982. The first week of winter. Two Norwegians in a helicopter are chasing a sled dog, which flees through the snow to a United States science station, where the 12…

  December 9 2014, 1:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’: Storyboard vs. finished film | Dangerous Minds

  As the film writer Anne Billson has pointed out most critics were wrong about John Carpenter’s The Thing when it was first released in 1982. In general they hated it and…

  December 9 2014, 1:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : The Art of Close Writing

  Jonathan Russell Clark sits at his desk, writing an essay about free indirect discourse. Surrounding him are books by authors who employ the technique with considerable skill: Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert,…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Uvula Audio: At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft : SFFaudio

  Uvula Audio‘s James Campanella has added a complete reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s “quintessential work of horror” to his podcast feed. In China Miéville’s introduction to the Modern Library paperback edition of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Tumblr The Phantom Zone overspilleth!

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• Portfolio Internet of Our Dreams

  March 30 2014, 2:48pm | Comments

• Tumblr Virgil Finlay

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

  January 11 2014, 5:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Virtual afterlives will transform humanity – Michael Graziano – Aeon

  In the late 1700s, machinists started making music boxes: intricate little mechanisms that could play harmonies and melodies by themselves. Some incorporated bells, drums, organs, even violins, all coordinated by a…

  December 22 2013, 2:48am | Comments

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

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Stanford scholar asks: What does the traumatic past mean for our future?

  Images of a post-apocalyptic world are rife in contemporary literature. Written in 2006, The Road by American author Cormac McCarthy depicts a nearly decimated planet Earth. The probable end of mankind…

  November 20 2013, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Borges, Paradox and Perception - NYTimes.com

  The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. books and literature, Borges, Jorge Luis, Heisenberg, Werner, Hume, David, Philosophy, physics, writing and writers

  May 12 2013, 3:37pm | Comments

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• 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

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

  August 25 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

• 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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  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

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  Crazy Friend by Jonathan Lethem

  March 12 2012, 12:50am | Comments

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  Behold Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine, the Amazon Kindle's new hottest book

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

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  Philip K. Dick : To the best of our KNOWLEDGE

  March 4 2012, 1:35am | Comments

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  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

  March 3 2012, 12:05pm | 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

• Tumblr Cybernetic Sherlock

  January 8 2012, 9:45am | Comments

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  Never go with a cultist to a second location

  December 18 2011, 2:05am | Comments

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  Out of Imagination Came a New Online World

  December 7 2011, 5:06am | Comments

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• Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

  But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

  October 16 2011, 7:04am | 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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• Bookmark Weird realism: John Gray on the moral universe of H P Lovecraft

  The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas…

  March 30 2015, 8:57am | 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

• Bookmark Moxon's Master/Bierce

  I got no immediate reply; Moxon was apparently intent upon the coals in the grate, touching them deftly here and there with the fire-poker till they signified a sense of his…

  December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments

• Bookmark The Thing set on survival | Anne Billson | Film | The…

  Antarctica, 1982. The first week of winter. Two Norwegians in a helicopter are chasing a sled dog, which flees through the snow to a United States science station, where the 12…

  December 9 2014, 1:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’: Storyboard vs. finished film | Dangerous Minds

  As the film writer Anne Billson has pointed out most critics were wrong about John Carpenter’s The Thing when it was first released in 1982. In general they hated it and…

  December 9 2014, 1:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : The Art of Close Writing

  Jonathan Russell Clark sits at his desk, writing an essay about free indirect discourse. Surrounding him are books by authors who employ the technique with considerable skill: Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert,…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Uvula Audio: At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft : SFFaudio

  Uvula Audio‘s James Campanella has added a complete reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s “quintessential work of horror” to his podcast feed. In China Miéville’s introduction to the Modern Library paperback edition of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Tumblr The Phantom Zone overspilleth!

  April 25 2014, 2:12am | Comments

• Portfolio Internet of Our Dreams

  March 30 2014, 2:48pm | Comments

• Tumblr Virgil Finlay

  February 25 2014, 4:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

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

  January 11 2014, 5:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Virtual afterlives will transform humanity – Michael Graziano – Aeon

  In the late 1700s, machinists started making music boxes: intricate little mechanisms that could play harmonies and melodies by themselves. Some incorporated bells, drums, organs, even violins, all coordinated by a…

  December 22 2013, 2:48am | Comments

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

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Stanford scholar asks: What does the traumatic past mean for our future?

  Images of a post-apocalyptic world are rife in contemporary literature. Written in 2006, The Road by American author Cormac McCarthy depicts a nearly decimated planet Earth. The probable end of mankind…

  November 20 2013, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Borges, Paradox and Perception - NYTimes.com

  The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. books and literature, Borges, Jorge Luis, Heisenberg, Werner, Hume, David, Philosophy, physics, writing and writers

  May 12 2013, 3:37pm | Comments

• Projects Pyramid Schemes

  May 6 2013, 3:31pm | 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

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

  August 25 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

• 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

  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Crazy Friend by Jonathan Lethem

  March 12 2012, 12:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Behold Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine, the Amazon Kindle's new hottest book

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Philip K. Dick : To the best of our KNOWLEDGE

  March 4 2012, 1:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

  March 3 2012, 12:05pm | 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

• Tumblr Cybernetic Sherlock

  January 8 2012, 9:45am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Never go with a cultist to a second location

  December 18 2011, 2:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Out of Imagination Came a New Online World

  December 7 2011, 5:06am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 27 2011, 3:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

  But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

  October 16 2011, 7:04am | 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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