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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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 | What is Hidden Under the Skin?
Thoughts about otherness, sexuality, the Uncanny and the essence of humanity
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Lead | Home Away From Home
In the past year our home became the frontline in a covert war. We took shelter. We added much more meaning to our homes, while meaning was being eroded, but mostly we noticed the forces at play, pushing and prodding us from both outside and inside our house. Who are they, what do they want?
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Deep Dive | The Enemy Within
Thoughts about the uncanny year, the enemy within, and how repressed uncanny angst gave rise to the belief that Hillary Clinton is one of many pedophile lizard people controlling the world
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