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14. "Summoning the Demon": Robot Cultist Elon Musk Reads from Robo-Revelations at MIT October 27 13. Gizmuddle: Or, Why the Futu...

Also posted at the World Future Society . On Christmas Eve, Eric Meyer posted a devastating personal account reminding us of the extraor...

This rather densely allusive sketch contextualizing my anti-futurological critique won't be everybody's cup of tea, but I've u...

In an enjoyable rant over at io9 today, Charlie Jane Anders declares herself Tired of "The Smartest Man in the Room" science fic...

Secularity -- from the Latin saecularis , worldly, timely, contingent -- properly so called, is very much a pluralist and not an eliminatio...

I was listening to this with righteous fury back in Atlanta as a Queer National, vegan hard-ass (these days I'm cheerfully vegetar...

Once again we are confronted with another miscarriage of justice as another police officer kills another unarmed black citizen the police a...

To say the personal is political is to notice that in becoming the personal some politics is de-politicized, with political consequences. ...

The futurological in my sense of the term is an ideological formation; it is essentially a marketing discourse amplifying the profits and a...

I find it utterly bewildering that the public face of geekdom more and more seems to be becoming venture capitalist skim-scam operations, e...

It is a techno-transcendental commonplace to pretend that medicine is confounding long definitive biological limitations in human health, c...

Although I am an atheist myself, I am personally less interested in the political significance of the state of explicit atheist identificat...

I received an invitation Monday night to contribute a mini Op-Ed for the New York Times' "Room for Debate" forum, responding ...

tr;dl: too real, didn't live

Behind the eyes of every positive person cold opportunism, every confident boast shrieking panic, every insistent optimist cruelest dark. ...

Here are the first few weeks of the syllabus for my graduate seminar at the San Francisco Art Institute, Designs On Us. The course began as...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot , "JimF" snarks about an interview in the transhumanoid magazine humanity-plus -- so if you d...

We tell cameras the truth.

George Lucas : People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and ...

SF Bay Guardian To call seminal SF perfomer and alpha theater aficionado Arturo Galster merely a "drag queen" is to do his rang...