Category: Books
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Comicon 2010: News of World War Z
Let me put something out there at first, I loathe most recent cultural narratives about zombies and pity my hipster peers who cite The Zombie Survival Guide as a favorite book. Much of the cultural prestige of a zombie invasion is predicated on adolescent male fantasy and objectivist survivalism. Having said that, World War Z […]
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io9 interview with Ken Macleod
http://static.bloggingheads.tv/maulik/offsite/offsite_flvplayer.swf This is an interesting discussion, also given that I just finished reading the Cassini Divison from Macleod. It was a good, if a little short, novel on how fleshy humans cope after the technological singularity. A flashback character in Ken MacLeod’s 1998 novel The Cassini Division dismissively refers to the singularity as “the Rapture […]
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Who Fears Death by Nnendi Okorafor: African post-apocalypse literature
Amazon.com: Who Fears Death Post apocalypse fiction from an African perspective, fascinating.
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The Sony Reader Pocket
I recently bought an e-reader, the Sony prs-300, from suggestion of Charles Stross. This is the first time I have had a portable reader since a handed-down Palm PDA in freshman year. Since receiving a generous monthly stipend in graduate school, I have been buying paper books like crazy. Just as quickly as I started […]
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RIP Howard Zinn
http://www.youtube.com/p/C984687F7C7449A1&hl=en_US&fs=1 Howard Zinn passed away on Wednesday at age 87. Zinn was a popular activist and author of People’s History of the United States, a frequently updated review of history from the perspective of groups traditionally unrepresented in popular national consciousness. People’s History of the United States sought to give an alternative view of American history against […]
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New MIA Single: Space Odyssey
http://www.twitvid.com/player/B54ED Space is hip this year. I’m a bit apprehensive that the hip artists who appropriate space themes this year haven’t read books in the space opera canon and appreciate rich media about the cosmos. I’m afraid Hipsters may play it out and drop it like they have done to zombies and steampunk.
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January 2010 seems to love comics
The first month of the year seems to be obsessed with comics and cartoons. In full disclosure, I enjoy short-form comics only occasionally. However, the short form seems to be getting all the attention right now. Earlier this month, an illustrator of one of the bigoted JP comics of the Prophet Muhammad was the target of […]
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Best of the decade in list
Music Jesu — Silver Jesu — Conquerer http://www.lala.com/external/flash/SingleSongWidget.swf Old Year – Jesu Deltron 3030 Textures — Polars VNV Nation — Judgement http://www.lala.com/external/flash/SingleSongWidget.swf The Farthest Star – VNV Nation Lustmord — The Place Where The Black Stars Hang http://www.lala.com/external/flash/SingleSongWidget.swf Aldebaran Of The Hyades – Lust… Isis — Panopticon http://www.lala.com/external/flash/PlaylistWidget.swf Panopticon – Isis Isis — In The […]
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Best of 2009 In List
A lot of good stuff is being released in December, so the list will change between now and the new year. Albums The Prodigy — Invaders Must Die Isis — Wavering Radiant Brother Ali — Us The Empire Shall Fall — Awaken http://www.lala.com/external/flash/PlaylistWidget.swf Awaken – The Empire Shall Fall Massive Attack — Splitting the Atom […]
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Best of 2008
Albums Textures – Sillouhetes Meshuggah – obZen Boris – Smile Shai-Hulud – Misanthropy Pure Torche – Meanderthal Venetian Snares – Detrimentalist One Day As A Lion NIN – The Slip Portishead – Third Niyaz – Nine Heavens End.user – Left Disasterpeace – Level Mutyumu – il ya Bespa Kumamero – Romantic Waves she- Coloris Movies […]