I rejoice in accepting [this beautiful award] for and sharing it with all the writers who were excluded from literature for so long — my fellow authors of fantasy and science…
Leif Haven
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ConversationLiteratureSci Fi / Fantasy
We’ve All Always Been Lichens: Donna Haraway, the Cthulhucene, and the Capitalocene
by Leif Haven September 22, 2014[Editor’s Note: due to privacy settings, you’ll need to click through to view the video. Please do, it’s very worth watching.] “To be a one at all you must be…
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FilmLiteratureMusic
Only Lovers Left Alive: On Jim Jarmusch’s Vampire Movie
by Leif Haven September 8, 2014When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all…
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Night Moves is a movie by director Kelly Reichardt. Reichardt is probably one of the most distinctive auteurs in contemporary American film. Her films take up the American West as…
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LiteratureSci Fi / FantasyScience/Technology
The Concept World Is No Longer Operational Vol. VI
by Leif Haven August 19, 2014On Hopelessness, Simulation, Superintelligence I. Some form of the Simulation Hypothesis has been around for a long time. It’s the idea that we might be in a…
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On Kawara died on July 10, 2014. He was 81 years old. The artist’s death was somehow the final act of his art. It was not hurried. Kawara’s death…
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Talkativeness By Michael Earl Craig Wave Books, 2014 Buy from Wave for $18 (paperback) or $25 (limited edition hard cover) “when I slap this ham, open your eyes.”…
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GamesLiteratureSci Fi / FantasyScience/TechnologyVideo Games
The Concept World is No Longer Operational Vol. V
by Leif Haven June 17, 2014On Repetition I. Infinity Blade is a game that repeats ad infinitum. Once you finish the game, whether you win or lose, you start over. Like…
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Painted Cities Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski Mcsweeney’s 2014 $24 in hardcover from McSweeney’s I wanted to read and talk about this book because it’s about Pilsen, the neighborhood of Chicago wedged in…
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ArtLiteratureMusicTravel
The Concept World Is No Longer Operational Vol. IV
by Leif Haven May 12, 2014“This time, the crumbling empire is the unassailable global economy, and the brave new world of consumer democracy being forged worldwide in its name. Upon the indestructibility of this…
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Today. Today… At the edge of our hope, at the end of our time, we have chosen not only to believe in ourselves, but in each other. Today there is…
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“Kiss me, you’re beautiful, and these are truly the last days.” – Godspeed You! Black Emperor “The world is everything that is the case.” – Wittgenstein Six or eight…
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“What we desperately need is an appropriate level of shock and anxiety concerning a specific ecological trauma—indeed, the ecological trauma of our age, the very thing that defines the Anthropocene…