ANARCHIST FUTURISM & THE LIE OF HISTORY [From the Archives of TheState]

The following essay was originally serialised on The State from May 20, 2013. genesis and forking timelines It’s the early 90s. In the form of an Australian teenager finishing high school, with a head full of Heinlein, I tried to join the Army. That future never eventuated—in this timeline, anyway. I entered university still full of […]

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LOVECRAFTIAN CYBORGS AND THE ALIEN AESTHETIC: Part 3 – CETI & The Aesthetics of Aliens

What follows are my extended thoughts and personal reflections a week two weeks after watching Bruce Sterling deliver a lecture on Alien Aesthetics. It’s a look at the weirder side of cyborg life and our posthuman future. A glimpse at the many ways in which we try to see the unseen and embrace the cosmos. […]

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Transmission #4 of the Cosmic Anthropology Broadcast System: The Team Machine Chat Prologue

SHOW NOTES RELATED EPISODES Transmission #1 of the Cosmic Anthropology Broadcast System – the Neanderthal Pride ep Mad Max trilogy posts: Mad Max: Fury Road and the pre Jackpot Years Mad Max : Fury Road – Review MAD MAX GROUND ZERO Fortitude Review [Daily Grail]   Dark Extropian Musings [Patreon]   WORKS MENTIONED: 12 Monkeys (tv show) […]

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on the native culture of self-aware science-fictional citizens, with Bruce Sterling

Think atemporally and act in the moment. Write the manifestos, but write them with an expiration date. So you’re a self-aware science-fictional citizen in a post-cyberpunk, post-Snowden, hypermediated, ecologically collapsing world. Everybody says nobody reads, but it’s a meme and it got 100000 Likes on Facebook, and a subreddit dedicated to it, and is the subject of […]

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