Anti-Hauntology: Arca, AI, and the Future of Innovation

Mark Fisher and Anti-Hauntology In my previous article I claimed that recently departed artist/producer SOPHIE marked a significant shift in Continue reading →

Anti-Hauntology: Mark Fisher, SOPHIE, and the Music of the Future

This essay serves as the basis for a chapter in The Future is Not Lost: On Music, Technology, and the Continue reading →

The Metamorphosis and The Lobster: 100 Years of Power and Dehumanization

Reviews of Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2015 film The Lobster seem to be about fifty-fifty on whether they use the term Kafka-esque, Continue reading →

On the Political Significance of the Abolition of Time in Literature

Let us begin with a question: when, precisely, did literature’s well know deployment of non-linear time begin? We know the Continue reading →

The Cherubim Collection

I went down to run the body, sank in the colored maps of arteries and veins. I ended on my Continue reading →

Glitchy Ontologies and Cancelled Futures: Why Cyberpunk 2077 is a Perfect Failure

Just four days after the conclusion to the unparalleled hype of Cyberpunk 2077, its developers released a formal apology to Continue reading →

Rediscovering the Past: The Value of Rereading Books

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a Continue reading →

Divided Times: Jonathan Sacks on Morality

Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is a figure who has had an influence well beyond the shores of the UK. Continue reading →