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Author Archives: Damien Walter
Backrooms is avant-garde art for normies
It’s 1990. This morning I found an open door in the shopping centre of the dull commuter town I live in. Beyond the door are a series of large empty rooms, poorly lit, with large boxes. Backrooms. I phoned my friend Matthew Woods. Woodsy. He pedaled over his BMX and together we’re going to exploreContinue reading “Backrooms is avant-garde art for normies”
The most hated philosophy
Ah, yes, POSTMODERNISM The most hated of all obscure philosophies. The “postmodernists” like Lyotard, Baudrillard, Foucault etc were big in the 80s then drifted out of fashion… …only to be Streisand effected back to life by their haters, not least Jordan Peterson, who shrieked about the Evils of Postmodernism so long and so hard thatContinue reading “The most hated philosophy”
Hauntology
Which future from the past haunts your now? If you’re alive and watching this in 2026 you are likely haunted by one of two great stories of the future. The future of the space rocket, the warp drive, the starship. Human technology will take us to the stars, to strange new worlds, to meet theContinue reading “Hauntology”
Why do Leftists always lose? A (partial) defense of Contrapoints
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Talking sh*t
How did Ursula K Le Guin become the most famous science fiction writer of her generation? I have a theory. By the 1960s science fiction had decided that the future was in space, and the Space Race sealed the deal. A generation of SF writers focussed all their attention on how space exploration would becomeContinue reading “Talking sh*t”
The Toilet MEMBER PREVIEW
Last year a member of the Science Fiction community jokingly asked my opinion of Skibidi Toilet, a Gen-Alpha brainrot “kids show” on YouTube with billions of views. And by far the most watched science fiction narrative of the 21st century. “Good” and “bad” don’t have a place in critical thinking about culture. Skibidi Toilet is.Continue reading “The Toilet MEMBER PREVIEW”
The myth that made Interstellar
Longterm members of our community know about myth, but new members might be scratching your heads. Myth is old stories about why the sun rises etc. Science fiction is the extrapolation of scientific FACT. They are NOT the same. Let’s talk. In fact that idea about myths being stories to explain the sun rising (etc)Continue reading “The myth that made Interstellar”
2026 : the year World War 3 begins
To my Gen-X compatriots, to the Boomers and Millenials, and to Gen-Z who will have to clean up this mess we all made… …can we agree that Star Trek is the future we would all like? A future in which poverty is eradicated, disease is a mere curiosity of the past, humanity has put asideContinue reading “2026 : the year World War 3 begins”
Woke Marxist Social Justice Warrior Space Hippies….With Guns
I don’t remember if the Culture was my first experience of trans charcters, but it must have been close. I read the books at around the same time as The Sandman when I was about fifteen. So it was probably one of those. Trans characters barely existed in UK media of the early 90s. TheContinue reading “Woke Marxist Social Justice Warrior Space Hippies….With Guns”
The Accusations Against Me
I am sometimes accused of “click-bait” Which is entirely false. Every video on the Science Fiction channel does exactly what it says on the tin. “But. DAMO. This picture of God Emperor Elon carrying Joe Rogan carrying infant Donald Trump fighting Skibidi Toilet’s Titan Cameraman is CLEARLY CLICKBAIT!!!” Nope. This video essay will entirely fulfillContinue reading “The Accusations Against Me”
Military Industrial Complex invites nations to “volunteer” as war zones
ARLINGTON, VA—Citing a “distressing lack of economically expendable geographies,” a coalition of top defense contractors issued an urgent plea Tuesday for any nation with a negligible impact on the S&P 500 to “selflessly volunteer” to host a massive, high-tech kinetic conflict. The joint statement, signed by CEOs from Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing, noted thatContinue reading “Military Industrial Complex invites nations to “volunteer” as war zones”
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