Tag: cultural fracking
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The Backrooms as Permissive IP
The Backrooms movie shows how modern myth, world literacy, and permissive IP can produce culture that Hollywood can only arrive at later.
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Talking Cultural Fracking and World Running on Neomania
I was recently a guest on Lance “it’s ya boi” Robotson’s alt-futures podcast Neomania.
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Week Away
I went away last week. 5 nights in Gran Canaria. We went to a huge hotel, ate loads of buffet food and sat by the pool. AND we watched a…
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You Copied Me
It’s surprising how quickly “You copied me” appears in a child’s vocabulary.
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Solarpunk: A Container for More Fertile Futures
My original essay from Solarpunk Magazine’s first issue. It examines the rise of Solarpunk as a creative force for sustainable futures.
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Party at 300?
I have a feeling that next week’s Weeknotes (299) will be the soft launch of my new blog layout and theme. Maybe I’ll throw a party at 300.
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Future Music
I am fixated on the vocal static. I hear at the edges the AI-anna Grande model unspooling into pure material waveform. This is future music.
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Looking in a Hole?
What have pundits been doing with their time for a decade? Looking in a hole in the ground?
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Cultural Fracking | CMF 2023 Annual Trends Report
I was interviewed by the Canada Media Fund, as they have included a *whole chapter* on Cultural Fracking in their 2023 Annual Trends Report.
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What the Hell Is Going On? | 2243
Steady state capitalist realism and cultural fracking has got so bad they are rebooting the damn moon landings.
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Mickey in the Metaverse | 2235
As a symbol of the copyright regime of the 20thC. A permissive Mickey in the metaverse seems like an interesting experiment to try.
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Wolves Lane
The cactus house is laid out like a body, a womb, a heart and stepping stones representing the cardinal directions and the elements.
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Post Normal | 2219
New Zine, Post Normal Fiction, A Brief History of Modernity, and our need to explore what’s beyond or after it.
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Speed Barbie, Racer Knight | 2217
The New Barbie Movie, Cultural Fracking, my aphantasia and why Speed Racer is a much better movie than The Dark Knight
