Category: Criticism
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ours is the tragedy of the silent stars
Humans are arguably distinguished from other species by the extent to which we have transcended the temporal limits of natural selection through our capacity to adapt our environment to our needs, rather than the reverse.
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sturgeon’s law (slight return)
I think we’re probably past Peak Poptimism already, myself, and driving hard into enantiodromia territory; the headlines are full of it, if you’ve eyes to see with.
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gonzo Borges
A quick stab at defining Sam Kriss as a literary genre unto himself.
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we (believe that we) have always lived in the castle
I’ve noticed for some years now a discursive tic in what little fannish media I still consume, in which reviewers rehearse a catechism along the lines of “minority representation in genre literature, both at the level of characters and the level of authors, has always been and still is terrible”. To which my response is…