Listen to a Story from Motherboard’s First Ever Short Story Collection
Some days, it feels like all you can do is watch worlds burn.
This is especially true in the desperate small towns that pocket the parts of America some derisively call ‘Flyover Country.’
Today on Cyber, we’ve got something special. Motherboard is publishing a book! It’s called Terraform and it dro…
Revolutionary Round-Up
This week on Better Strangers:
* For Halloween, we talked about John Carpenter’s 1988 movie They Live! and how it neatly explains some leftist media theory.
* For the Wednesday column, we talked about Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline and the strategic and moral arguments behind nonviolence …
What would an anarchist revolution look like?
Yesterday, across England, Guy Fawkes was burned in effigy, 418 years after he tried to blow up parliament as part of the pro-Catholic Gunpowder Treason.
In the 21st century, Fawkes has come to represent something very different from what he did in his life: in his time, Fawkes wanted to restore a…
Episode 23: Stocking up for the Apocalypse
David and Perry discuss:
The Coronavirus Epidemic
How we rate books
Touch~Claire North
Hugo Awards for 2020
A Memory Called Empire~Arkady Martine
Infinite Detail~Tim Maughan
The Wicked Girls~Alex Marwood
The Mermaids Singing~Val McDermid
The Ten Thousand Doors of January~Alix E. Harrow
Daemon Voice…
Episode 20: Don’t need no Saturn V rockets
Perry and David discuss:
Follow-ups
What we've been reading
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
The Lost City of Z by David Grand
Nova Mob - Ian Mond's recommendations
Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
Ordinary People by Sally Rooney
Voices by Ursula Le Guin
The Blind Contessa's New Machine by Carey Wallace
Amst…
REDLINE
It's the 100th episode of the podcast! As I say on the recording itself, this isn't the actual 100th episode; we've had a few above 100 since I've done quite a few 0.5 episodes (like the top movies podcasts) that aren't in the mainline of episodes. But at least the episodes where we talk about a sp…
44: Tim Maughan – Culture, Technology and the Future
Tim Maughan is a British science fiction writer whose work critically explores the intersections of technology and society. He is perhaps best known for his debut novel, “Infinite Detail,” which was a 2020 Locus Award finalist for best first novel and shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Ass…
Txt
In this episode of High Theory, Matthew Kirschenbaum talks about txt, or text. Not texting, or textbooks, but text as a form of data that is feeding large language models. Will the world end in fire, flood, or text?
In the full interview, Matthew recommended Tim Maughan’s novel Infinite Detail (Mac…
Israel’s most lethal operation in Gaza is under way
Israel’s renewed offensive in Gaza City - the largest Palestinian population centre - is being framed as an assault on Hamas’s “final stronghold”. But behind that narrative lies a campaign of expulsion and erasure that bears all the hallmarks of an endgame. Contributors: Dana Mills - Writer, Local…
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious, and
I listen to podcasts.
‐ Albert "Llamacorn" Einstein
