Anomalous Engineering

How We Teach Is Also A Lesson

I often think about the phrase “Strange things happen at the one two point,” in relation to the idea of humans meeting other kinds of minds. It’s a proverb that arises out of the culture around the game GO, and it means that you’ve hit a situation, a combination of factors…

The Many Posthuman Aspects of PACIFIC RIM

AKA: The candy-coated human/machine rescue mission.

Pacific Rim is many things. Many shiny, spectacular, immersive, self-aware, monster genre mashing, robot smashing, crowd pleasing, city…

Go to hell, Bobby Jindal.

The xenophobia and/or naked opportunism of US government officials in the wake of the recent attacks in Paris (I’d say, “and Beirut”, if I thought some of these cretins could find Lebanon using Google Maps) — from CIA Director John Brennan and Senator Ted Cruz to anencephalic…

A Very Robosexual Human (De)Extinction

Or how technological alienation, cultural stagnation and literally fucking robots will be the end of us all. On this planet. But might just see us reborn on the other side of the galaxy in five thousand years, give or take.

Currents, Strata, and Other Intersecting Lines of Force

Between watching all of CBS’s Elementary…

On GOTHAM and Always Being Batman

A good deal of our remit, over here, is to talk about many of the themes of the fringes of things…

The Coming Asperity

a definition and some speculation

What happens when new / bright…