Month: August 2019
The Internet Isn’t All One Thing | 1922
Half articulated thoughts on Waldenponding, literal content and UX verticality, the demands of the attention economy and why return to the Isles of blogging.
Fracking Whitney
Last weeks podcast was about ‘cultural fracking’ and how the purveyors and controllers of mass media culture can only continue to make money by fracking the past. Content from a time when mass culture still existed. As their business model relies on their audience being inside a shared reality or shared cultural grammar. When I…
Salvage/Rescue
Kaleidoscopic compass of speculative multispecies imaginaries.
Spider-Man’s MCU No Deal Webxit | 1921
Cultural Fracking and fandom being dispossessed of their stories by private interests.
Half formed thoughts On ‘Ralphing’ and Compass Memes
This week feels like the week that the weird Accelerationist political 4×4 compass meme levelled up out of cave twitter and went into wider consciousness.
One Step Forward Two Steps Back
Well, after talking how much better my mental health was last week. This week has been dark and terrible. I don’t want to talk about it.
Profiles and Radio
I’ve been in the media the last week: Can Science fiction save the planet? I was profiled/interviewed by French online magazine ulyces.co The piece is in French but as you can see in the screenshot above, Google Translate does a very good job with it. The interview covers Solarpunk, My Sonar+D talk, Stacktivism work and…
Micronutrients
I’ve had the lurgy again this week. Maybe I picked it up some of whatever eve had last week but fought it off. Its been a whole week of feeling around 80% and then doing something like walking into town and having to abort the mission to go home back to bed and sleep it…
Fortnite World Cup Explained (For Boomers) | 1918
This week I try to explain the 2019 Fortnite World Cup and its significance (for Boomers).
