Cyborgian Gaia

13Jun17

Post-apocalyptic narratives crowd current fiction, television, film, and videogames. Horizon: Zero Dawn combines two versions of these narratives and actually makes an interesting, if slightly abstract, point about anthropogenic climate change. In the game you play a young woman named Eloy who is a hunter from a matriarchal tribe. The wilderness around you is rather […]

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Tags: Borne, ecological politics, haraway, horizon zero down, jeff vandermeer

Emerging Weirdness

07Jul11

The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities ed by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer is now available. “After the death of Dr. Thackery T. Lambshead at his house in Wimpering-on-the-Brook, England, a remarkable discovery was unearthed: the remains of an astonishing cabinet of curiosities. Many of these artifacts, curios, and wonders related to anecdotes and stories […]

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Tags: ann vandermeer, jeff vandermeer, mieville, Negarestani, reza negarestani, steampunk, the weird, weird fiction