Nov
20
The Fatal Allure of Yesterday's Tomorrows
On the dangers of seeing science fiction as a template for the future.
23 min read
cultural criticism
Jul
02
The Soul In The Machine
On R.U.R and the forgotten origin of the word "robot."
12 min read
Jan
30
The Ringmasters: An Interview with Josephine Riesman
On wrestling, the post-truth carnival, and the latent fascism of Vince McMahon
19 min read
Jul
08
How Manners Can Save Us
10 min read
Jul
29
Some Things We Must Let Die
Ecological processes of culture, the tension between utopia and dystopia, and the corpus of writer Kim Stanley Robinson.
17 min read
