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Ask Metafilter the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come…

March 14 2024, 1:38pm | Comments
Bookmark Leaving Herland | The Point Magazine
But even after I overcame my instinct for detachment, I remained wary of the movement’s language, which was a language of binaries: women and men.

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark Octavia Estelle Butler: Notetaking as Science Fiction - Forte Labs
Octavia Estelle Butler was born in 1947 in Pasadena, CA. Known in her early years as “Estelle,” she was raised by a single, widowed mother who worked domestic jobs to make…

September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Please Stop Talking About the "Rise" of African Science Fiction | Literary…
Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling)…

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Leaving Herland | The Point Magazine
But even after I overcame my instinct for detachment, I remained wary of the movement’s language, which was a language of binaries: women and men.

April 30 2018, 4:24am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Help me find this quote about living in possible worlds/utopias I read a quote recently, and cannot find it again. It was in an article or interview about better worlds, about the possibility of utopia. And the person writing/being interviewed quoted another thinker's doctrine, something like: "A possible world is only worth considering…

April 28 2018, 5:30am | Comments
Bookmark How philosophy came to disdain the wisdom of oral cultures | Aeon…
A poet, somewhere in Siberia, or the Balkans, or West Africa, some time in the past 60,000 years, recites thousands of memorised lines in the course of an evening. The lines…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Books after the Death of the Book | Public Books
Last summer I decided to assign Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects in the graduate course I was getting ready to teach.

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Writers of Color Continue to Wrestle With Lovecraft’s Racist Legacy | WIRED
H.P. Lovecraft is universally acknowledged as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, and references to his Cthulhu Mythos abound in contemporary culture. But Lovecraft was also…

January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Bookmark Manifestos for the Internet Age by Various — Julian Hanna – minor…
This is what you get when you dip into Manifestos for the Internet Age, a reader issued by Greyscale Press. It might be the best way to consume manifestos, in fact,…

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Ask Metafilter The Footprint on Crusoe's Island & its use in critical theory The single appearance of the footprint in Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe, is perhaps one of the most famous events in all of literature. I am interested in who has referenced it, and for what ends, especially in critical theory. I also…

September 9 2015, 8:03am | Comments
Bookmark Japanese science fiction award opens entries to aliens and computers | Books…
Last week, the Australian writer Richard Flanagan stalked on to the stage wearing a broad grin, kissed the Duchess of Cornwall and grasped the 2014 Man Booker prize.

November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark The novel is dead (this time it's for real) | Books |…
If you happen to be a writer, one of the great benisons of having children is that your personal culture-mine is equipped with its own canaries.

May 2 2014, 9:56am | Comments
Bookmark The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion
Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments
Bookmark Roger Scruton – A culture of fake originality
A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people. High culture…

January 22 2013, 5:16am | Comments
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

November 11 2012, 9:23pm | Comments
Metafilter The Library of Babel in 140 characters (or fewer) The universe (which others call The Twitter) is composed of every word in the English language; Shakespeare's folios, line-by-line-by-line; the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, exploded; Constantine XI, in 140 character chunks; Sun Tzu's Art of War, in its entirety; the chapter headings…

October 27 2012, 9:15am | Comments
Bookmark Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About
Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in…

June 15 2012, 5:29am | Comments
Bookmark War and Peace ebook readers find a surprise in its Nooks
A few days ago a blogger who identifies himself as just "Philip" took to his site to recount his experience of reading War and Peace – specifically, a 99¢ version as…

June 15 2012, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark In the Digital Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation
Publication used to mean preservation but it no longer does. Let me explain. When a print book is published its metadata is literally attached to its content. The author and title,…

May 21 2012, 10:46am | Comments
Bookmark The Trouble with Scientism
The conflict between the Naturwissenschaften and the Geisteswissenschaften goes back at least two centuries, and became intensified as ambitious, sometimes impatient researchers proposed to introduce natural scientific concepts and methods into…

May 17 2012, 3:42am | 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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When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture
The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts
RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments
Metafilter A Database of Metaphor The Mind is a Metaphor. A database of thousands of metaphors organized by category, like 18th century, Liquid, or Jacobite. It's maintained by University of Virginia English Professor Brad Pasanek.

March 27 2012, 7:06pm | Comments
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Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments
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Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments
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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
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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

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