This Is Not an Interview with Poppy What do you think people will think of social media in the future? People aren’t going to think in the future. We will become one knowing consciousness. What drove you to YouTube as a medium for your work? I like YouTube because it is owned by Google. Google […]
A Skeptic’s Guide To The Mekons If the Mekons were what you claim they are, in other words, everyone would already know and acknowledge it. That they don’t is proof you’re wrong. The irony here is that this line of reasoning is precisely what has always obsessed the Mekons, the very thing that a lot […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Christine is an arresting biopic about a reporter’s on-air suicide Indeed, seeing both movies is a richer experience than seeing either one alone. One says nobody should make a Christine Chubbuck movie. The other defiantly says, “We’re gonna make it after all.”
An embress of textistence and embiddyment aflight […] the nature of the book means that there will be two types of reviews of it. The first type will come from comics and geek-culture websites, whose reviewers have rarely read anything more taxing than X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills. A 1200+-page literary novel is, pretty much […]
Stars—They’re Just Like Us! When had astrology become our irrationality of choice? Probably sometime around 2012, when things were not so good for us. When you’re feeling stuck, one way to convince yourself change is in the near to middle distance is to read a horoscope. It didn’t matter that the mechanism by which it […]
The Berenstein [sic] Bears: We Are Living in Our Own Parallel Universe In 1992 they were “stEin” in 1992, but in 2012 they were “stAin” in 1992. Some explanations have been proposed. via A.V. Club
The Friday Poem: “Monica”, by Hera Lindsay Bird And to be able to maintain a friendship Through the various complications of heterosexual monogamy Is enormously difficult Especially when you take into consideration What cunts they all were
The end of capitalism has begun | Books | The Guardian New forms of ownership, new forms of lending, new legal contracts: a whole business subculture has emerged over the past 10 years, which the media has dubbed the “sharing economy”. Buzzwords such as the “commons” and “peer-production” are thrown around, but few have bothered […]
Twelve Tomorrows Q&A with Science Fiction Author Gene Wolfe | MIT Technology Review.