In it, Venturini references a couple of different books about positive thinking and goal setting to argue against some common wisdom. Culture is dead, for the same reasons that nature is. First off, I was interviewed for the Nerd Feuilleton podcast – it’s a German language podcast, but the section with me (in English, sadly I’m not bilingual) starts at around the 54 minute mark. Instead, at the moment I’d rather centre the voices of the women coming forward. Is it you? White's space opera Voidwitch Series continues: Mars Xi returns in Void Black Shadow, sequel to Killing Gravity.Mars Xi is a living weapon,... Spencer Ellsworth, Andrew Neil Gray, J. S. Herbison, Dave Hutchinson, Martha Wells, Corey J. I’ll have a couple more links to share with you soon. Like we’ve just gotten progressively meaner, and harder, and more afraid, and more paranoid, and more spitefully willing to fuck ourselves into oblivion to prove some kind of point. If the updates here on the website are too infrequent for your tastes, then your best bet is to sign up for the Nothing Here newsletter, which I run with some friends of mine. (Or maybe I’m being too harsh with that last example. I’ve got the original art here, waiting to be framed when I’ve got the money, but I also wanted to share a scan of it with you all. White Categories Thoughts Tags Damien Williams, Ganzeer, Katie West, Meredith Yayanos, Warren Ellis 1 Comment on Do The Work This is … Here is an audiobook excerpt here I can share with you. It only takes two people to love that, to recognise its reflection in great art and wild nature and to be courageous enough to make sacrifices for it — to suffer for it — for culture to live. And those two people are me, and thee. It’s an important read for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that governments all over the world are taking inspiration from Australia’s offshore detention regime, and as time goes on, and climate and ecological pressures cause more people to need to flee their homes and homelands, we will see more countries establishing similarly barbaric prisons – sorry, “processing centres” – cropping up all over the world. The sheepdog develops a new sense of self beyond self-confidence – it re-identifies as a wolf. Repo Virtual is out now! But there are times when the sheepdog manages to lock its jaws around the wolf’s throat and remains clamped onto it until the wolf can’t withstand the pressure anymore; the dog persists until the wolf submits. The best thing that could come out of the coronavirus pandemic is the realisation that things can and should change. He’s an artist working in an area that he coined: Concept Pop. We can’t all be the eagle-tiger geniuses who can reinvigorate a dying culture, but we can be the sorts of people on the look-out – we can be searching and scouring for something to break through the malaise so that when it comes we can embrace it. There was a chunk from a recent Technoccult newsletter that I had considered sharing in nothing here.
But both Damien and Darren end on a positive note – a call to community. The final moment at the end of The Entertainment is so shocking because you’re the one turning your head to look.
I came across a post via Peter M. Ball – Dying on the Mountain: How Goals will Kill You and How to Focus on the Process, written by Fred Venturini and published at litreactor. More important than that basic plot is the philosophical core of the book focusing on the personhood of non-biological intelligences, and the way those intelligences could become our heirs if we ever let them. It’s a cultural history of the 20th Century, looking at different paradigm-shifting ideas that completely changed the way we think, and uses that as a basis to try and grapple with the past century and see what we can carry forward into this new one. If you are raised and trained, every day, by, let’s call it 85% of the people and cultural products you consume, much of which has built directly into it a disincentive to take seriously any opposing position, then is it reasonable to mark as “mental illness” the following of that education to one of its logical conclusions? Yes, there are still multiple heists and shoot-outs, and a car chase through flooded streets, but I wrote the book because there were philosophical concepts I wanted to explore. The whole place is like a dangerous chemical concoction. I was also interviewed by Andrea Johnson over at Nerds of a Feather. Tor/Forge Be loud, be brave, be ready. But in case it isn’t: I believe them. It doesn’t matter how good a writer you are, if you’re only able to conceive of your own work at a shallow level, then all you’ll be able to write is shallow work. These refugees will find themselves locked up in prisons like the one at Manus Island for the simple “crime” of seeking asylum. Corey White. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.”, “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”, Repo Virtual Sneak Peek: Free Ebook Preview, Tor.com Publishing's Summer of Space Opera Sampler, Ecopunk! I need to have my hopes and my dreams for this book so I can strive to do something more and greater than my previous work, but I also need to say “Fuck the results,” and focus on the process so I can actually get it done. If you’re here at this website, then you already know who I am, but let me introduce the rest of the nothinghere team: We occasionally have guests on board to talk about their projects, interests, et ceteras, and we also have a paid subscription tier for bonus letters – more in-depth reviews, short fiction, weird essays, and other miscellanea. That is its purpose — or can be said to be. It contains a personal essay from me, and a whole slew of great fiction, non-fiction, and art from some fantastic contributors. Looking forward, more and more it seems like collective action and community engagement will be our best hope, and that’s where the game will guide you, if you let it. White's books. Our precarious worklives, the way our agency and freedoms are slowly being stripped away from us due to “threats” of “terrorism” and the ubiquity of surveillance apparatus, the flood of social/media outrage keeping us agitated – all of it works to ensure that we are too tired and/or depressed to create or consume anything that is truly new. And it’s hard to argue. We can’t continue on the way we’ve been going, not unless we want to irreparably damage our biosphere. It is a weird and compelling story told in fascinating fashion.).
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