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 →

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 →

On Sinofuturism: Cosmotechnics and Dis-orient-ation

In The Question Concerning Technology in China, Yuk Hui claims that sinofuturism as it exists in its current form, i.e. 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 →

Remembering Baudrillard’s Contaminated Discourse

The parasite serves as a useful simulacrum for post-modernism. Post-modernity engages us with a kind of viral discourse, which seeks 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 →

Recurring Dreams and Collective Unconscious: An Interview with Alex Zhang Hungtai

In I Had Nowhere to Go, director Jonas Mekas’ diary-like collection of writings covering his life from the abandonment of his Continue reading →