Steven Shaviro

New blog posting: on TRANSMENTATION | TRANSGRESSION, a new (forthcoming) science fiction novel by the consortium of authors who use the collective pseudonym "Darkly Lem".
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New blog entry, on South Korean science fiction writer Kim Choyeop, whose first volume of short stories will soon be published in English: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2014

Thoughts upon reading Jacek Dukaj's monumental novel ICE:

www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2011

RIP Udo Kier.

I finished reading THE ROSE FIELD. It marks a milestone, as I now have read through @philippullman.bsky.social Philip Pullman's six volumes about Lyra Belacqua. All wonderful, and much needed in these dark times. www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2004

New blog posting: on Kathryn Bigelow's A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE

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New blog entry, on Philip Pullman: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2004

The Era of the Bully Ralph welcomes Professor Roddey Reid to break down his book “Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Handbook for the Trump Era and Beyond.” Then, we are joined by the original Nader...

Ralph Nader interviews Roddey Reid about Roddey's new book on political bullying:

www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/the-era-of...

New blog posting: a review of Jo Isaacson's brilliant new book on the 1962 movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1999

Roddey Reid’s book, now revised and expanded, is the best text I have found that not only grasps the full meaning of Trump, but places him in the context of American business culture. Be afraid.

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Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

A defense of old “anti-white” twitter postings by the New Yorker journalist Doreen St Felix

Just made a Facebook posting that may get me into trouble (as has happened to me once before). But I felt like I had to say it.

New blog posting: on Cassandra Khaw's The Library at Hellebore: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1996

The Shinola factory is literally across the street from the building in which I live.

Richard Nixon once complained (on the Watergate tapes): “A great leader should be both loved and feared, and I’m neither”.

Book review: MINDS IN TRANSIT by Joan Slonczewski shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1993

New blog entry: Charlie Jane Anders' forthcoming novel, LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER: shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1990

It isn’t as radical as Blindsight. But a number of recent books from Tchaikovsky - especially Alien Clay and now Shroud - really approach sentience beyond the human from a new standpoint.

I wrote a brief review of Adrian Tchaikovsky's new science fiction novel SHROUD: shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1987

YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV) Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying with Roddey Reid

Roddey Reid on political intimidation and bullying in the age of Trump: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPY8...

"(T)he retreat of morals in the presence of music, and of dancing, and the general gaiety of the theatre, is a fact very interesting to philosophers and very puzzling to the official censors."
-- A.N. Whitehead, 'Modes of Thought'

Most people live lives of quiet desperation, survey suggests

New blog entry: Donald Trump is not conscious shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1979

Steven Shaviro's review of Shroud 5/5: SHROUD is a look at alien sentience, by the (alarmingly prolific) science fiction writer Adrian Tchaikovsky. Two engineers are stuck in their spacecraft (which is actually more like a bathysphere...

New book review: Adrian Tchaikovsky's sf novel SHROUD:

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

It's weird to have elected leaders who say they want to crash the economy, reinstate segregation, strip human rights and create a perpetual underclass and then have people ask why are they doing this are they bad at economics ?

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

Just signed a contract to publish a book on the movie NEPTUNE FROST in Bloomsbury's Timecodes: Films MInute By Minute series. @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social

This is the second time USAID/State is punishing people revealing the truth that Marco is killing children. They're quite desperate to hide this fact, as if the reporters in Africa or court declarations are making it up.

RIP Souleymane Cissé, great film director from Mali. HIs 1987 YEELEN, the only film of his I have seen, is extraordinary. He made other films as well, which I hope to get a chance to see.