Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier JARON LANIER IS ONE of the leading philosophers of the digital age, as well as a computer scientist and avant-garde composer. His previous books include Dawn of…
For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends The experiment of a ‘continuous week’ was shift work, on a colossal scale. And it failed. Source: For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends
Ethnic Futurism in the Gulf by Scott Smith — Futurism has found aesthetic expression in the Gulf among a cadre of young writers and artists who are using it to explore the dynamics of…
A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Literary Canon Illustration: Tim McDonagh Why Now? Okay, assessing a century’s literary legacy after only 18 and a half years is kind of a bizarre thing to do. Actually,…
Book review: Consider Phlebas, Iain M Banks (1987) This piece of gun schlocky starts with a machine-built ship escaping from a galaxy. At its edge, the ship is intercepted by enemy vessels and intentionally…
Stereotypes, Tropes, Archetypes and Norse Mythology In today’s writing world there is nothing so maligned as tropes, stereotypes and archetypes. It is very fashionable to laugh at or point out the so-called…