Posts tagged morality

The Follies of Mammon

The mirror of terraforming is “xenoforming” — think here of the “red weed” mentioned in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, making the Earth alien-like, or of the strangeness from the Southern Reach Trilogy. Gentrification is like xenoforming. It isn’t some extraterrestrial force though, no little green men are showing up to pry off the old house numbers and put up the addresses rendered in metal Neutraface, the official font of gentrification.

Analysis, Political, Written by: CameronCameron SummersMay 26, 2021Capitaliforming, Gentrification, Urbanism, Capitalism, anticapitalism, Five-over-ones, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs, A Burglar's Guide to the City, Geoff Manaugh, morality, CyberpunkComment

The Problem of the Protagonist: A Question of Morality and Subjectivity

I believe that the way that we tell stories has a major influence on the way that we conceive of selfhood and acceptable behaviors, and I think that there are some easy ways we can adjust how we construct our narratives that would be helpful and possibly lead to new and interesting story shapes.