When Futurism Collapsed

Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner is perhaps the best movie to represent a future that was once held, at least Continue reading →

Who Left a Labubu on Marx’s Grave?

Post-Irony, Jouissance, and Scrolling while Taking a Shit Recently something made me smile: the news that one of those unsettling Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

What Is Solarpunk?

Green capitalism is the hottest new thing. A sunny valley with advanced technology, a robot farmer picking strawberries with grandpa Continue reading →

Weird Fictions & Neoliberal Horrors: The British Urban Imaginary

Every morning, first thing, I flick on my phone for a dose of mass death. War-images and propaganda dance on Continue reading →

Arabic Hauntology: The Sound of Habibi Funk Records

The twenty-third album by Habibi Funk Records was released on the 14th of July 2023. But it may as well Continue reading →

Ultra-Blackness in Music: A Non-Mixology

By Achim SzepanskiTranslated by Jan Heintz With the modification of a Baudrillard quote regarding the infinitely choosing chooser one could Continue reading →