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Reactionary Futurism 2025 | Los Angeles Review of Books Jordan S. Carroll reviews recent scholarship on the alt-right.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reactionary-futurism-2025/

The Astronomy of Melancholy | Los Angeles Review of Books Arnaud Gerspacher considers “Sad Planets” by Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-astronomy-of-melancholy/

Is it time to chart a new path for xenolinguistics through sci-fi? | Aeon Essays To truly explore alien languages, linguists must open themselves to the maximum conceivable degree of cosmic otherness

https://aeon.co/essays/is-it-time-to-chart-a-new-path-for-xenolinguistics-through-sci-fi

Why The Movies Will Never Feel The Same Again How the role of cinema has changed in the shifting media landscape and what it must do to survive. (Also vaguely an introduction to Media Ecology)

https://www.seeingthroughfilm.com/p/why-the-movies-will-never-feel-the

Dreams Per Second: A History of the Frame Rate On cinema’s ability to conjure reality at a paradoxical remove, from Notebook Issue 7.

https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/dreams-per-second-a-history-of-the-frame-rate

Hope against Hope, by Catharsis 7 track album

ListeningNow: https://crimethinc.bandcamp.com/album/hope-against-hope

Adam Elsheimer’s The Flight into Egypt (1609), the first Western painting to accurately depict galactic constellations

Adam Elsheimer’s The Flight into Egypt (1609), the first Western painting to accurately depict galactic constellations

The word “desire” comes from the Latin “de-,” “negation,” and “sidus,” “star.” To be far from the stars.

And a new Vollmann is coming, too! https://www.amazon.com/Table-Fortune-Box-Set/dp/1648211887

Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds review – ravishing sensuality from an unsung surrealist This thrilling, visually hypnotic exhibition beautifully captures the delightful energy of the painter’s work, even if it does treat her belief in the occult with too much reverence

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/03/ithell-colquhoun-between-worlds-review-ravishing-sensuality-from-an-unsung-surrealist

Revolution Man On Mark Z. Danielewski, His Unfinished Novel, and His Father's Ghost(s)

Mark Danielewski on his novels, past and future: https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/revolution-man?utm_source=activity_item

Nexus Mods Sold by Creator Who Ran It for 24 Years After 24 years of operating it, the creator of Nexus Mods is stepping down and has sold the site to new owners.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/nexus-mods-sold-by-creator-who-ran-it-for-24-years/

Mirria on Steam An atmospheric casual puzzle game where players navigate a strange cryptic world that blurs the line between dream and reality. Using inspection and memory, uncover hidden anomalies between mirrored worlds.

I love Carl Burton’s work regardless of the medium https://store.steampowered.com/app/3738340/Mirria/

Welcome, DEVONthink 4.0 Copernicus! — Here's our new DEVONthink generation with a slew of new features and improvements, from generative AI to versioning, audit-proof databases, a completely rewritten web interface, new automations and much, much more. #devonthink #upgrade buff.ly/7qm8WXg

Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

The Geological Sublime, by Lewis Hyde Butterflies, deep time, and climate change

The Geological Sublime, by Lewis Hyde https://harpers.org/archive/2025/07/the-geological-sublime-lewis-hyde-deep-time/?src=longreads

The Future Of Health On A Damaged Planet | NOEMA The future of health will be planetary or there will be no future health at all.

https://www.noemamag.com/cultivating-well-being-on-a-damaged-earth/

The Ascendance Of Algorithmic Tyranny | NOEMA As today’s platforms become all-powerful, the metaphors we use to describe our digitally infused world exemplify a new, stealthier form of domination that is emerging.

https://www.noemamag.com/the-ascendance-of-algorithmic-tyranny/

Damaged, by Ghost Dubs 12 track album

ListeningNow: https://ghostdubs.bandcamp.com/album/damaged

Surface Tension, by aircode 8 track album

ListeningNow: https://ginandplatonic.bandcamp.com/album/surface-tension

Apparition Paintings, by David Toop 12 track album

ListeningNow: https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/apparition-paintings

Defying classification, fantastical artworks reframe the racism of Carl Linnaeus | Aeon Videos By transforming documents of colonial classification into fantastical paintings, the racist imagery of Carl Linnaeus is reborn

https://aeon.co/videos/defying-classification-fantastical-artworks-reframe-the-racism-of-carl-linnaeus

How French ‘merveilleux-scientifique’ fiction reframed reality | Aeon Essays With brain swaps and death rays, a little-known French sci-fi genre explored science’s dark possibilities a century ago

https://aeon.co/essays/how-french-merveilleux-scientifique-fiction-reframed-reality

Isolationism isn’t new and is fuelled by deep human desires | Aeon Essays Liberal thinkers are shocked that nations are once again isolating from the world. The real surprise would be if they didn’t

https://aeon.co/essays/isolationism-isnt-new-and-is-fuelled-by-deep-human-desires

The Clash Between Technology & Ecology | NOEMA In the politics of the future, left vs. right will yield to “up” vs. “down.”

https://www.noemamag.com/the-clash-between-technology-ecology/

The Business of Betting on Catastrophe World Bank pandemic bonds paid out only after death tolls passed a threshold. They’re part of a booming market where investors turn calamity into capital.

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-business-of-betting-on-catastrophe/

Unlimited Flow: Beyond the Horizons of Genre - Reactor Death games, omniscient gods, and limitless possibilities: A deep dive into a sub-genre of SFF practically unknown to English readers.

https://reactormag.com/unlimited-flow-beyond-the-horizons-of-genre/

Tylko Nieświadomi Przeżyją, by Tylko Nieświadomi Przeżyją 6 track album

ListeningNow (to this brilliance!): https://tylkonieswiadomi.bandcamp.com/album/tylko-nie-wiadomi-prze-yj

https://www.patreon.com/posts/132130562