***We also recognize:*** The imaginative challenge that awaits any Mundane Afrofuturist author who accepts that this is it: Earth is…
Sentient Actors
“Critic Gary Wolfe argues that cities are basically antithetical to the science fiction imagination. Cities, he suggests, represent confinement, limitations…
Transizion
“Science is a way of thinking about reality that takes its objectivity for granted. Fiction is a way of describing…
What is impossible now may one day become possible.
“Imaginary science is extremely common in sf; it is not at all the same thing as Pseudoscience. The difference is…
Disrupting the System
Who can say whether these faces hanging from the wall accurately reproduce the faces of those people who were innocently having a cigarette or chewing gum?
Another Future: Hayden Fowler’s Alternative Nature
Kids born in the 1960s and 1970s always knew the end was nigh. We were the bomb generation. Mushroom clouds…
Sculpture By The Sea 2013
As an art event, SBTS is reliably awful and its problems are always the same.
A-Z of Contemporary Art
Don’t know your biennale from a triennale? Can’t tell your old media from your new? Are notions leaving you baffled?