PhD candidate at WSU: prehistory in fiction, poetics, historiography & representation. Inna Riddim selector: dub, jazz, jungle.
As the novelist and cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson observed, ‘the future is already here — it’s just not…
In the summer of 1849, an Austrian war steamer — aptly named Volcano — released large balloons filled with flammable gas and equipped with a timed ignition system. The duration of the balloons’ journey to their destination, the city of Venice, had been carefully calculated. For the…