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Courting Delirium: Max Talley and his Dark Zeitgeist
Posted on January 9, 2021 | 1 Comment - Seventh Generation: The Voice and Leadership of Indigenous Youth
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
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Courting Delirium: Max Talley and his Dark Zeitgeist
Posted on January 9, 2021 | 1 CommentJack Eidt from WilderUtopia.com had a chat with novelist Max Talley about the recent book he curated and contributed two stories to, called Delirium Corridor, A Dark Anthology, from Borda Books/Santa Barbara Literary Journal.‘Solaris’ – Tarkovsky’s Vision Beyond an Urban Future
Posted on April 3, 2017 | 1 CommentA startling vision of the future, somewhere in the cosmos on a planet yet unknown, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris investigates apparitions of the irradiated mind in a nostalgic view of humanity looking into it's own mirror.Geo-Fauvism and Anthropocene: Altered Planet, Wild Literature
Posted on June 4, 2016 | 2 CommentsWelcome to the Anthropocene age, where humans have transmogrified the planet, its oceans and atmosphere, caused mass extinctions and wholesale contamination that will remain for millennia. Beyond the politicians and scientists, the way forward remains in the hands of writers, artists, and designers taking inspiration from wild earth in a movement called Geo-Fauvism.Karlheinz Stockhausen: Cosmic Pulses of Sound from the Dog Star
Posted on November 28, 2014 | 5 CommentsOn the inimitable and controversial Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer who fused science fiction with classical music, whose 20th Century groundbreaking creations expanded the bounds of electronic music and serial compositions from the brightest star Sirius.Delia Derbyshire: ’60s Science Fiction Sound Art
Posted on November 8, 2014 | 1 CommentWatch "The Delian Mode" a documentary on the innovative electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, who worked from 1960 to 1973 at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. She utilized both real-life and ‘artificial’ electronic sounds in her compositions using a musical style known as Musique Concrète.The Psychological Cost of a Hotter World: More Suicides
Posted on May 2, 2014 | 2 CommentsUsing Phoenix, Arizona, as an example of where global warming has resulted in inhuman heat and extreme weather, Jerry Adler in Smithsonian wonders if human beings will be able to keep their cool? New research suggests not.J. G. Ballard: Atrocity Exhibition and the Modernist Motorcar Dystopia
Posted on December 27, 2013 | 2 Comments"The Atrocity Exhibition" is J.G. Ballard’s instruction manual in how to disrupt mass media and recontextualize technology in a dystopian landscape overrun with industrial waste and technological white noise. Watch the piece on Ballard and the Motorcar, that careens across the landscape of his controversial novel, "Crash."Space Exploration: Ray Bradbury and the Mission to the Red Planet
Posted on August 30, 2012 | No Comments“The Martians were there—in the canal—reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water....” --Ray Bradbury, "The Martian Chronicles"La Jetée – Chris Marker’s Post-Apocalyptic Time Travel
Posted on July 30, 2012 | 1 CommentChris Marker, writer, photographer, filmmaker and time-traveler created the post-nuclear-war photo-novel-film "La Jetée," an inventive melange of image and sound, politics and philosophy.H. G. Wells on the Futurist Dystopia of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”
Posted on July 15, 2012 | 5 Comments"Metropolis" hallucinates a futuristic city, a paradise of glass and steel, where underground workers toil endlessly at the giant machines that run the world above. Controlled by the autocratic industrialist, his spoilt son falls for the working class prophet who envisions some mediation between workers and managers. Noted science fiction author H. G. Wells reviews the controversial 1927 masterpiece.
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