“The wealthy and powerful may in fact take climate change seriously: not as a demand to modify their behaviour or … More
Category: Architecture
Sentient Actors
“Critic Gary Wolfe argues that cities are basically antithetical to the science fiction imagination. Cities, he suggests, represent confinement, limitations … More
Democracies versus Dictator Regimes
“But from the 1980s, … cities recovered. An increasingly complex financial sector needed more sophisticated networks of lawyers and accountants. … More
Get Me Out of That Room
“The Shining” (1980): The hedge maze model from “The Shining,” one of Kubrick’s most viscerally terrifying efforts and a truly … More
Slowly Erased by Wind
“I live and grew up in Lima. About 60% of the city today lies within the desert, most of it … More
Adventure thru Inner Space
“It’s often been said that science fiction predicts the future. I’d argue that this isn’t generally the case. In fact, … More
Memory City
“One also wonders what Sontag, or indeed Baudelaire, would have made of Sohei Nishino, a young Japanese photographer whose work … More
The figure of the detective
“The figure of the detective is indeed a metaphor when viewed in a certain way, but consider how complex this … More
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