Manifesto | Science Fiction – Now!
A passionate call for a difficult but necessary action - Imagine Tomorrow! If you don't, someone else will do so for you!
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Lead | Inhuman Scales
How do we talk about the new uncanny numbers and foreign scales that became our reality in the past few months?
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Provocation | On Robots and Newts
Čapek’s Scifi vision reflects the politics of his turbulent time and we're experiencing the fallout of those violent upheavals to this day.
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Deep Dive | Companion Cubes
A critical look at the history of emotional labor and services given to humans by robots and AI
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Deep Dive | Robots! Will Not! Replace Us!
Robo-phobia is a modern incarnation of the ancient fear of our own descendants. It can teach us about our relationship with technology, the means of production, and the act of creation.
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Recommendation | The Robot that Changed My Life > TikTok and The Tin Man > The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Cyborg in search of a heart appeared in the famous masterpiece from the early 20th century - a flashing red light that we have all missed in the last hundred and twenty years
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Fiction and Art | The Neural Link – an Absurdist Reality
Text from the August 2020 PR event for Elon Musk's Neuralink, a company developing brain/computer interfaces
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Lead | What is a Robot?
We’re marking the Robot centennial, 100 years of revolution and evolution, aspiration and agony, a century of mutual inspiration between industry and culture, art and policy, science and science fiction. At the heart of the Utopia “Master and Slaves” edition is the age-old naïve and un-answerable question – What is a Robot?
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Deep Dive | Face Cover
A historical and personal voyage through the past 30 years of face coverings and masks, and through the uncanny anxieties and fears awakened when one covers their face.
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Recommendation | The Haunted House
While we are attempting to understand the term home anew, one of the corniest arenas in the horror genre is gaining a refreshing new interpretation
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