The assumption – and I think it’s correct – is that the technology is going to happen anyway, so the best thing is to get it distributed as quickly as possible and see what people use it for, and keep...
Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks.
Stated most simply, New Death is the condition whereby human corpses now lie always on a horizontal vector—no matter the angle of the surface or the substance of the matter below them—and now orient s...
Sometimes, don’t you sometimes wish you didn’t care? I mean course you want a change, we want a change, but if a change ain’t godsdamn coming, then the next thing I wish is that I didn’t care.
Sometimes I’d go to his house. If I had some cool cards in my pack of Iceberg Updates, we’d compare collections, maybe swap a few.
Pokud člověka mátlo pobývat v Přízrakově, kde ho obklopovali duchové předchozích forem, ocitnout se uvnitř této budovy mu vyrazilo dech. Zdálo se, jako by se chodba stahovala a zužovala podle kolotání...
Liberation was fucked up.
In 1964 a coalition of activists, technologists, and academics delivered The Triple Revolution, an open memorandum to President Lyndon B. Johnson. The signatories pointed out that wealth produced by m...
I took the goats downslope a bit and they screamed at each other and I screamed too to see what it was like.
Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape,
His Infernal Excellency, he declared, the ambassador of Hell.
Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent to defend the Soviet currently arguing furiously against taking the p...
Woof, the dogman Nazi said.
William Gibson told only half the story: like the future, the past is also here in the present, and just as unevenly distributed.
Why should we not shep naches from the accomplishments of our machines? This vicarious joy or success sounds somewhat odd, but it shouldn’t be. We get excited when our sports team wins a game; why sho...
Well, put simply, and as far as I understand it, they’re egalitarian because they respect the individual so much, right? And you can’t respect other people’s individuality if you focus on your own ind...
There was a hubbub in Billy's head all night. He would hardly call so raging and discombobulated a torrent of images a dream. Call it a vomit, call it a gush.He was back in the water, not braving but...
There are a thousand ways of inhabiting it, but the aether, that in-between, is always what it is; and ghosts, spirits, the souls of lucid dreamers squeeze past each other in complex asomatic ecology....
The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.
The branches dropped shaggy creepers that, when they reached the earth, hardened into roots and pried apart paving.