Izabella Kaminska explains how QAnon stems from the worlds of online gaming and Playboy magazine. The FT had invited Adam Curtis, the cult BBC documentary maker, to a one-off experimental stage show. He told the […]
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Eddie Van Halen’s DIY Maker Story
Dale Dougherty describes the DIY origins of Eddie Van Halen’s musical career. Eddie began by hacking his instruments — the electric guitar itself — to make it do what he wanted it to do. “What […]
Studio Berlin
Berlin’s Berghain club has reopened as a temporary art gallery. Berghain is housed in the ruin of a Soviet thermal power station in Berlin. Conceived on a grand scale, it’s a fathomless black box you […]
The True Slack is Back
A documentary about J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs, the Church of the SubGenius and the war against the “conspiracy of normalcy” drops next week. Initially hatched in the playfully demented minds of two Dallas-area merry pranksters, Reverend […]
The Dangers of Cynical Sci-Fi Disaster Stories
New stories will help us understand the importance of seizing the means of computation and using it to build movements that break up monopolies, fight oligarchy, and demand pluralistic, shared power for a pluralistic, shared […]
Why So Many Silicon Valley CEOs are Playing Victim
A Stanford professor explains how tech titans channel obscure philosophies to convince us — and themselves — they’re being wronged. Examples of self-styled victimhood are dime-a-dozen in Silicon Valley. In May 2016, Silicon Valley billionaire […]
Hip-Hop’s Afrofuturistic Hive Mind
This cohort was making work as young adults that projected a hip-hop–Afrofuturist imaginary onto the extremely Eurocentric gallery system’s white-cube walls. Nowadays if we need to make the artists of the first hip-hop generation relatable […]
“Little Brother” Grows Up
Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother series has been a young-adult sci-fi bible for teen hacktivists. But with the latest and darkest book in the trilogy, it’s all grown up. In Little Brother, the series’ first book, […]
One of the First Modern Steampunk Classics
I would argue the best steampunk stories regularly engage with social and political issues, and one of the greatest is Laputa: Castle in the Sky. Released in 1986, Castle in the Sky (the slightly shorter […]