LOVECRAFTIAN CYBORGS AND THE ALIEN AESTHETIC: Part 1 – Cyborgs of the Abyss

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. […]

Adventures in Extinction Aesthetic Writing

Time for another update on all things Dark Extropian and Extinction Culture related. On being self-aware citizens of the science-fictional condition in the midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction. Whilst continuing to explore aspects of the Dark Extropian philosophy on the (De)Extinction Club newsletter and related Extinction Aesthetic cultural criticism at Daily Grail, I have just recently […]

Looking for the Exit at Some Bleak Circus

This is Warren Ellis’ closing talk from Future Everything 2015: This part (about 14mins in, which I have transcribed for you) is a eulogy for tech conferences that generate more tech conferences presented at the closing of a conference that’s being saying the future is now for twenty years, and design fiction written within a […]

Jennifer Goine’s over the top and loving it DeExtinction speech in the 12 Monkeys finale.

“One more thing; the Dodo. Silly thing, couldn’t fly. Too fat. Flapped its wings futilely, into extinction!

My father created Markridge as a place to defy the order of things, to ignore the rules. To laugh at Mother Nature and spit in the face of Father Time.

Beginning today, Markridge will start repairing the damage that men like my father have done to this world. Through genetic manipulation we will give new birth to what man has so arrogantly made extinct. The lease is up. Time to give the world back to its rightful owners. The animals! The lions and tigers and bears… the furry faced caretakers…[inaudible]

THIS YEAR THE DODO, NEXT YEAR THE UNICORN!”

Transmission #3 of the Cosmic Anthropology Broadcast System: A Chat With Cat Vincent On All Things Hyperreal

A Chat With Ian ‘Cat’ Vincent [catvincent.com | catvincent | @catvincent ] on all things Hyperreal. Cat is a regular columnist at Spiral Nature (a series called ‘The Hype’) a contributing editor to The Daily Grail, and has been published in three volumes of their Fortean journal Darklore. Cat has also been published three times in the Fortean […]

"Practical Design Fiction", metafictional machine gods and the blocky prototypes of the Holographic Universe

Matt Jones gave this talk at #interaction15 earlier this year, which went up on vimeo some four weeks ago, which I’m only watching and processing now because I’ve been elsewhere. BUT… drilling deeper into the mechanics of design fiction and its implications for #thework are very high on my permanent #todolist for this hashtaggin’ year. […]

a short review of AUTÓMATA

Above are the opening titles that introduce Autómata and its setting of #neartermhumanextinction, #heavyspaceweather and #atemporality. This movie is an instant classic that belongs on the shelf right between Bladerunner and Hardware; and just in case you’re not sure it’s full of explicit spot-the-Bladerunner-bingo references, and features Dylan McDermott in a role that could make you […]

reviewing INTERSTELLAR at Daily Grail

I went to the Melbourne premiere of INTERSTELLAR on Thursday night and wrote it up for Daily Grail – my first post over there, more of which are sure to come. I have been looking forward to this film all year and have pretty much flat-out squeed over every new trailer or teaser as they […]

Transmission #1 of the Cosmic Anthropology Broadcast System: The Neanderthal Pride Ep

The Neanderthal Pride ep Taking a look at the nature and complexity of human evolution: past, present and future. WORKS MENTIONED: X-Men: First Class, X-Men 2 Crux by Ramez Naam [sequel to Nexus] newuniversal Brookings Report The Tomorrow People American Horror Story: Coven LINKS: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/magazine/should-you-fear-the-pizzly-bear.html [HYBRIDIZATION] http://www.livescience.com/46636-how-tibetans-survive-high-altitude.html [DENISOVAN DNA] http://www.nature.com/news/neanderthals-bone-technique-redrafts-prehistory-1.15739 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genome_project http://io9.com/google-wants-to-create-a-map-of-the-perfectly-healthy-h-1610873338 Interview with George […]

Transmissions of a Cosmic Anthropologist is ready for your podcatching apps

The first full length episode of my new podcast is online. You can listen to it at the embed below. There’s detailed show notes over on my tumblr. It’s all about TIME and features special-guest @Wolven. You can subscribe to the podcast at the following locations: iTunes Stitcher SoundCloud Feedburner I’ve opened up a feedback […]

The Committee to Nuke Elysium

we're gonna blow up your space thing later

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