“The idea of creating messages to send on interstellar space probes seems both obvious and completely absurd. On the one…
The Evil Desire To Kill
“Imagine you had a time machine. Nothing would stop you from going back in time and killing yourself as an…
Conscious vs Unconscious
“Forbidden Planet [1956] extrapolates a contest between homeostasis and reflexivity, projected into a future defined by the ascendance of virtuality.…
At The Wavefront
“A quick list of the nations that have produced most of the sf in the past century and a half…
Saturated In Neon
“Can there be a science fiction photography? This is not a question critics working in the field of the fantastic…
The Scale of Logic
“In its secularized form, the uncanny becomes a matter of design. Artists employ its tricks. Audiences laugh and enjoy rather…
Swathed In Patterns
“For it is possible to recognize the dominance in the unconscious mind of a ‘compulsion to repeat’ proceeding from the…
Portrait of Power
“[Guy] Debord argues that the modern world introduced new ways of seeing and exhibited a fascination with reshaping our world.…
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