Sydney-based artist Sam Leach has curated Extropians, a new show at Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art. The exhibitions brings together … More
Tag: Definitions
Black box recorder
“SF names not a generic effects engine of literature and simulation arts (the usual sense of the phrase “science fiction”), … More
Quantum Comedy
“Anthropology, perception psychology, neurology, phenomenological sociology, ethnomethodology and even ethology (in its study of imprinting in animals), all confirm the … More
The rule of exceptions
“William Gibson is a science fiction writer, so is this science fiction? The answer is yes and no. Unlike Vonnegut, … More
Philosophy of future history
“Science fiction is a historical literature because the theoretical act or the imaginative act that you perform is to postulate … More
Envisioning Banality
“There is no real and no imaginary except at a certain distance. What happens when this distance, even the one … More
They know it when they see it.
“Most viewers seem to have little difficulty in staking out some fairly clear territory from which to start thinking about … More
Serpents & Birds
“As filtered through Horace and the power of Roman literary institutions, Aristotelian notions of genre provided the very foundation of … More
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