Category: Spec Fic
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tis black/out back.
The only reason this post isn’t called this fuckin’ ‘verse! is cos I was scared of the search-spam said title would generate. I have been burned, and I repent, whatever Gibbon might think. Well, then. Last month the mylaw books column was all about women. It was an exercise I undertook with a fair measure […]
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Mirrors & Myths.
This is the creature there has never been. They never knew it, and yet, nonetheless, they loved the way it moved, its limber neck, its very gaze, mild and serene. Not there, because they loved it, it behaved as though it were. They always left some space. And in that clear unpeopled space they saved […]
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Pitching SpaceTime
A pitch for the combined reading of Ranajit Guha, History at the Limit of World-History and Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject. In two interlocking review-essays. was roundly rejected. for it featured most alarming graphs. Limits, in math, are a clever, offside approach to concrete integers. If you apply them to functions, they can illuminate indeterminate […]
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Anarchist, Ahoy!
Three books about the price of revolution. All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use of new metaphors, drawn from certain great dominants of our contemporary life: science, all the sciences, and technology, and the relativistic and historical outlook, among them. […]