Posts tagged Used Future
Treating the Nostalgiac: An Overview
Treating the Nostalgiac: An Overview

Let us look at nostalgia itself, because nostalgia is what we’re taking aim at here. The pain of homecoming. Let us take a more medical or therapeutic approach. If we view being a Nostalgiac as a bad thing, what is the treatment for it? What is the plan of action for rehabilitation?

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Commentary, Written by: CameronCameron SummersNostalgia, Jobsian Minimalism, Used Future, I Robot, The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner, Sixteen Candles, Metachrony, Sukiyaki Western Django, Andy Goldsworthy, Disco Elysium, James Joyce, Ulysses, Planescape: Torment, Torment: Tides of Numenera, The Hidden Fortress, Star WArs, Seven Samurai, 13 Assassins, Red Harvest, Blood Simple, A Fistful of Dollars, YojimboComment
The Collapse of Possibility: The Problem of Aesthetics and Ontology in Science Fiction
The Collapse of Possibility: The Problem of Aesthetics and Ontology in Science Fiction

But all of this is beside the point: the fact that we can pick out two dominant aesthetics in the visual media form of what is supposed to be a “literature of ideas” is a problem. It indicates, if anything, a lack of ideas. If our options are just a visual vocabulary iteration of the old Star Wars vs. Star Trek debate that no one but the people having it are interested in, we've got problems.

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Analysis, Political, Written by: CameronCameron SummersScience Fiction, aesthetics, Philosophy, cyberpunk, The Expanse, Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, Hannu Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief, Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer, Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light, Virgil Ortiz, Native Futurism, Black Panther, Afro-Futurism, Star Trek, Gravity (2013), Star Wars, Used Future, Jobsian Minimalism, Transhumanism, Mind Uploading, Peter Frase, Four Futures, CyberpunkComment