The Future is Not Lost: On Music, Technology, and the Creation of New Worlds by Matt Bluemink

It’s finally here! The official release date for my new book The Future is Not Lost is 24th of June Continue reading →

“The Question Concerning Technology Is Political”: Lou Manuel Arsenault on Aztec Cosmotechnic

Following the publication of his acclaimed book Of Enemies and Venison: First Materials for an Aztec Cosmotechnic, Matt and Alessandro Continue reading →

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 →