Future Reloaded: An Interview with Matt Bluemink and Alessandro Sbordoni

XX121 is a large language model developed in 2021 by a team of researchers at Miskatonic University led by Julie Continue reading →

Self-Tracking: Why We Love Seeing Ourselves in Data

‘Listen to your body: all you have to do is wear it’ This is the promise of the FitBit Inspire Continue reading →

TikTok and Taboo: Mysticism in the Information Age

“Animism has endowed things with souls; industrialism turns souls into things.”  — Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment Continue reading →

Multiplication of Organs: Desire, Humanity and Technology

The Multiplication of Organs (MoO) [1] is not the Deleuzian Body without Organs (BwO), it is not the Žižekian Organ Continue reading →

Taylor Swift and Totalitarianism

The system is broken. The celebrity is brighter than the sun. Only she can decide when it is day. There’s Continue reading →

Semiotics of the End: The Backrooms

On October 12, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus landed on the American continent. On July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Continue reading →

Barbie & Dragons: On the Subversion of Play

A child aimlessly moves their toy train in circles, oblivious to the realities of transportation. In play, the models move Continue reading →

Gender Bubble: A Few Points from Judith Butler Explained via a Sexually Ambiguous Clownfish

For clownfish of the subfamily Amphiprioninae, sexual development is determined by social hierarchy in an arrangement known as sequential hermaphroditism. Continue reading →