“In a 1967 essay on minimalism, Clement Greenberg, America’s most influential critic, could have been describing Star Wars: “Everything is … More
Category: Criticism
Embodied Listening
“…An alternative model of a subject’s encounter with reverberation might draw upon the account of music and subjectivity advanced by … More
Serpents & Birds
“As filtered through Horace and the power of Roman literary institutions, Aristotelian notions of genre provided the very foundation of … More
Mr. Ballard, He Say No
“I thought the whole problem SF faced was that its consciousness, critically speaking, had been raised to wholly inappropriate heights-the … More
Cue The ‘Scrapers
The world is a fake and there are good reasons to believe it has been a set up from the … More
Towards infinity
“Sublimity. This attribute of objects of sight seldom occurs on the face of nature, in its natural state, comparatively with … More
New Vision of a Visionless World
“Over the last seventy-five years it has been science fiction, more than any other genre, that has appropraited [the Hegelian] … More
Romance and wonder
“One of the main reasons for describing science fiction as a form of romance is that its subject-matter is romantic: … More