“The menace of the golem and the fascination with automata were fused in the prescient novel The Sandman [1816] by…
Revelation Space
“The depiction of filmic space in recent years is marked by the possibilities of digital technology to create new worlds…
The Empire Never Ended
We reproduce our past not as memory, but as action. We act it out. Acting it out is, for some of us, our most vivid way of remembering.
Glimpses of The Uncanny Valley
“Japanese roboticist Doctor Masahiro Mori is not exactly a household name—but, for the speculative fiction community at least, he could prove to be an important one. The reason why can be summed up in a simple, strangely elegant phrase that translates into English as “the uncanny valley”.
You Are Here
“Geocaching was invented in May 2000, within days of the US Government switching off the security restrictions on global positioning systems that limited the accuracy of civilian receivers. A Portland computer consultant, Dave Ulmer, posted a message online that he had hidden a plastic bucket with software, videos, books, food, money and a slingshot in the woods near Portland, says the author of Geocaching For Dummies, Joel McNamara. “He used his GPS receiver to record the latitude and longitude and encouraged others to try to find it,” McNamara says.”
Las Ruinas
“Large ruins like this one produce the elemental sublimity of size; here the artist’s vantage point makes clear that the ruin dwarfs the spectator…”
All is full of love
Bjork, robots… the uncanny.
Subliming Out
There may be no sublime – at least, we can’t say or know there is without contradicting the very idea of the sublime. All we can do is make things that have come to represent the sublime or that remind us of what the sublime is supposed to be.
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