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Accelerate Leftwards
Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism There are two visions of this popular internet meme One is “Left Accelerationism”. Automate everything. Redistribute the wealth as Universal Basic Income. Finally arrive at The Future. The other is The Culture of Iain M Banks. Banks’ vision is a far future facilitated by advanced tech and AI “Minds”Continue reading “Accelerate Leftwards”
Welcome to the New Despondency
Welcome to the New Despondency The Internet was going to make information free. Instead we have four giant tech companies and too many paywalls. We built a giant high energy collider to reveal new levels of reality and it didn’t find anything. The world was going to become one global village of liberal capitalist statesContinue reading “Welcome to the New Despondency”
Deckard is more human, than human
So. This is what’s really happening in Blade Runner. Tyrell Corp have a mission to create Replicants that are “more human, than human”. To this end Tyrell have made a perfectly human Replicant. He has only human strength. He will age live a normal human lifespan. He will be able to father children. This ReplicantContinue reading “Deckard is more human, than human”
Enough With The Spacesuits
The Heavens Above weren’t popular because people believed they were real As humans we’ve always had a complex relationship with our myths But you didn’t have to believe in Heaven for it to provide hope, that your life as a medieval serf might transform, even in the afterlife, into something better. Life contains a lotContinue reading “Enough With The Spacesuits”
Joker is a masterpiece of radical cinema
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Why does Asimov matter?
Why does Asimov matter? Let’s put it this way Asimov rewrites our mythos around the values reason, rationality, science and humanism Huh? As humans we’re faced with many questions that we not only have no answers for, but that we cannot answer factually. We have to answer these unknowns with myths, stories that bound ourContinue reading “Why does Asimov matter?”
Megalopolis and its discontents
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Bangin and Blowin
Let’s talk about why Megalopolis is short-circuiting Hollywood Many years ago I was in a performance art collective. We held a monthly cabaret at a really dodgy pub with a heavy drinking criminal clientele. And we closed every cabaret with our house band Bangin & Blowin Nobody in the band could play their instrument, soContinue reading “Bangin and Blowin”
Megalopolis is what you just watched
Megalopolis is what you just watched Megalopolis is a movie about a civilisation in decline made by a civilisation in decline watched by a civilisation so deep into its decline that it can no longer recognise a TikTok video of its own decline Megalopolis is a movie with the narrative structure of your TikTok feedContinue reading “Megalopolis is what you just watched”
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Zardoz and the humiliation of Sean Connery
Why do we love science fiction movies?
Sometimes it’s because they take us to strange new worlds.
Other times they just have the best effects, the biggest explosions, or the most guns.
But when science fiction movies become legendary it’s often because they tell us something deep, true and meaningful.
Then there are the science fiction movies that step up to bat for legendary status
take a big swing
and miss
and sometimes, as much as we love the hits, we love those misses
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