Damien Walter

The ancient book of wisdom at the heart of every computer

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz was a German mathematician, scientist, philosopher, diplomat and theologian (which will become important to the story) and owner of many fabulous wigs. Or what we would today call a polymath. Leibnitz became curious about numbers. If there were 10 base numbers because humans have ten fingers, what would have happened if weContinue reading “The ancient book of wisdom at the heart of every computer”

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Writing for The Guardian about science fiction was a mixed blessing. One of my small number of “haters” likes to claim I must have had “connections”. The truth is I argued my way into The Guardian, starting from the comment section, until the editors invited me to contribute “above the line”, all driven by myContinue reading “The ancient book of wisdom at the heart of every computer MEMBER PREVIEW”

Philip K Dick’s handbook of narrative warfare

Philip K Dick’s The Man In The High Castle is a novel about one of the most complex ideas in our world. The way stories shape perception, and the war between narratives. This long-form audio commentary builds on ideas in the video essay Lady Gaga in The Man in the High Castle. Members of the Science Fiction community can listen to the full commentary on the member RSS podcast feed.

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Philip K Dick and narrative warfare

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Brand = Product + ?

Among the things I’ve done to pass 45 years on planet Earth is spend 10 of those years reasearching…story. One outcome of that research was my course The Rhetoric of Story, which now has over 50k students worldwide. Another outcome is my small consultancy working with a select set of businesses on brand storytelling. It’sContinue reading “Brand = Product + ?”

Why did YouTube demonetize my book review?

Did my video essay on Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle offend Amazon by calling their tv show “doomed”? Were Donald Trump’s lawyers on the phone for my depiction of him as a Nazi collaborator? Or does the video just feature too many Swastika’s? The real answer is much more quotidian, andContinue reading “Why did YouTube demonetize my book review?”

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The latent spaces of Neuromancer

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Denis Villeneuve’s Neuromancer

A very metamodern Batman

What would a metamodern Batman movie look like? Find out in this audio commentary to accompany the Incel Batman video essay on the Science Fiction channel.

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Incel Batman

Every generation gets The Batman it deserves. 40s Batman was a hardboiled PI. 60s Batman was a hipster for the hippy beats. 80s Batman was a city slicker. And 00s Batman was literally the American Psycho. Now in the 2020s the archetype of The Batman has reached its darkest manifestation literally…did this movie have anyContinue reading “Incel Batman”