Absentee Warfare
As developed nations push an arms race increasingly reliant upon AI and drone tech, the purpose of war tilts in a dangerous, postmodern direction.
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REVIEW: The Comfort Women Hoax – Ramseyer & Morgan (Encounter Books, 2023)
Authors J. Ramseyer and Jason Morgan detail their experiences exposing the myths and the hoaxes of the comfort women regime during WWII.
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REVIEW: Shadow Ticket – Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press; 2025)
With Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon throws his readers into a chaotic, puddle-jumping detective story that is quite a bit more than a simple missing person’s case.
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REVIEW: The Spiritual History of English – Andrew Thornton-Norris (Os Justi Press, 2024)
With broad strokes, poet Andrew Thornton-Norris offers a broad history of English literature where it intersects with the English spirit.
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R.I.P. Charlie Kirk.
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The Death of the Letter
In order to combat the alienation of modern life, we would do well to rediscover the importance of written correspondence: letters.
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Simulating a Corpse
Where the last generation amused itself to death, this one seems bent on simulating life by proxy with AI.
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SPOTLIGHT: Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (1961; 1970, Faber & Faber) & Andrei Tarkovsky (1972, Mosfilm)
In adapting Solaris to cinema screen, Andrei Tarkovsky turned a novel about contact into a film with deep meditations on art and identity.
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Artificial Society II
With AI becoming increasingly prevalent in service industries, tech heads consider art and creativity as one of its next frontiers. Not good!
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REVIEW: The MANIAC – Benjamin Labatut (Penguin, 2023)
Author Benjamin Labatut uses fiction to explore the life and legacy of John von Neumann, the physicist and engineer who propelled man’s knowledge past the particle and into the digital.
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