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

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | 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 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 A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher (Part 2) : Future Gnostic

  In the very first lines of “Exegesis” Dick writes, “We see the Logos addressing the many living entities.” Logos is an important concept that litters the pages of “Exegesis.” It is…

  May 22 2012, 3:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1

  The fish pendant, on Dick’s account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis: the recollection or total…

  May 22 2012, 3:05am | Comments

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  When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

  April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments

• Tumblr magnificentruin: detail, Voight-Kampff questionaire

  April 6 2012, 9:41am | Comments

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  An Essay on the New Aesthetic

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | 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

• Tumblr “I’m not sure I want to evolve, when it comes right...

  March 18 2012, 5:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr “God,” Eldritch said, “promises eternal life....

  March 18 2012, 5:17pm | 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 - 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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  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

• 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

• Tumblr Brundlefly

  September 19 2011, 1:25am | Comments

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  How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

  September 5 2011, 12:41am | Comments

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  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

  July 12 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Tumblr Win Sector

  July 6 2011, 8:40am | Comments

• Tumblr Another kind of logic

  July 4 2011, 8:51am | Comments

• Bookmark On Location with John Carpenter’s THE THING

  From the July 1982 issue of Omni. As with all the other commissioned pieces I wrote for the Arts section of that magazine, this originally ran without a title; I’ve also…

  June 20 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The Things, by Peter Watts

  I am being Blair. I escape out the back as the world comes in through the front. I am being Copper. I am rising from the dead. I am being Childs.…

  June 20 2011, 5:13am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

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

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | 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 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 A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher (Part 2) : Future Gnostic

  In the very first lines of “Exegesis” Dick writes, “We see the Logos addressing the many living entities.” Logos is an important concept that litters the pages of “Exegesis.” It is…

  May 22 2012, 3:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1

  The fish pendant, on Dick’s account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis: the recollection or total…

  May 22 2012, 3:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

  April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments

• Tumblr magnificentruin: detail, Voight-Kampff questionaire

  April 6 2012, 9:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  An Essay on the New Aesthetic

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | 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

• Tumblr “I’m not sure I want to evolve, when it comes right...

  March 18 2012, 5:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr “God,” Eldritch said, “promises eternal life....

  March 18 2012, 5:17pm | 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 - 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Tumblr Brundlefly

  September 19 2011, 1:25am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

  September 5 2011, 12:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

  July 12 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Tumblr Win Sector

  July 6 2011, 8:40am | Comments

• Tumblr Another kind of logic

  July 4 2011, 8:51am | Comments

• Bookmark On Location with John Carpenter’s THE THING

  From the July 1982 issue of Omni. As with all the other commissioned pieces I wrote for the Arts section of that magazine, this originally ran without a title; I’ve also…

  June 20 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The Things, by Peter Watts

  I am being Blair. I escape out the back as the world comes in through the front. I am being Copper. I am rising from the dead. I am being Childs.…

  June 20 2011, 5:13am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

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