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…
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ConversationLiteratureSci Fi / FantasyWe’ve All Always Been Lichens: Donna Haraway, the Cthulhucene, and the Capitalocene
[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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When 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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On 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 GamesThe Concept World is No Longer Operational Vol. V
On 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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“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…