Originally posted on The Tragic Community:
“To be more precise, science fiction is neither forward-looking nor utopian. Rather, in William Gibson’s phrase, science fiction is a means through which to…

Originally posted on Shannon E. Williams:
Suddenly frightened by her hatred, she said to herself: the world is at some sort of border; if it is crossed, everything will turn…

The short afternoon ends, and the year is over; Above trees at the end of the garden the sky is unchanged, An endless sky; and the wet streets, as ever, […]

http://content.blubrry.com/dietsoap/zerosquared50.mp3 “Alfie Bown is editor of Everyday Analysis, a blog and book series with Zer0 Books. He’s an assistant professor in Hong Kong and he writes on critical theory and […]

Chuck Palahniuk and the SF Cacophony Society panel starts around 20min

” Puerto Rico is just days away from the biggest municipal bond default in U.S. history, and Congress is doing nothing to stop it. The U.S. territory faces a January […]

” Berardi takes us onto an urgent and yet poetic rhetorical realm. Deriving from his publication The Uprising. On Poetry and Finance (2012), his lecture questions the relationship of the […]

Click to access SimondonGilbert.OnTheModeOfExistence.pdf Unpublished translation by Ninian Mellamphy – See more at: http://twentyfive.fibreculturejournal.org/#sthash.XBeGjPLr.dpuf and @ http://archive.org/details/Simondon%E2%80%94ModeOfExistenceOfTechnicalObjectsinProgress  

https://soundcloud.com/pando-populus/terence-w-deacon-the-human-as-a-symbolic-species

http://ia601502.us.archive.org/2/items/151217OSPODCASTClimate/151217-OS-PODCAST-Climate.mp3 “Jedediah Purdy, author of After Nature, says Thoreauvian wildness is exactly what our post-natural world requires. Purdy likes a new term, the anthropocene, to describe a geological age of […]

http://podcast.wpr.org/tbk/tbk160103a4.mp3 “Kurt Vonnegut joined his brother, Bernard, at General Electric in the late 1940s. Bernard was a scientist working on cutting-edge weather-control technologies while Kurt worked in G.E.’s PR department. Ginger Strand […]