Fiction Discussion Sadomasochism in Space: Lost Worlds of Gender Representation in 1980s Science-fiction Romance The obscure 1980s novel that unlocks the key to emotionally and psychologically sophisticated science fiction. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Fiction Discussion Tangled Fantasies: Speculative Anti-Imperialism and the Myth of Internal Resistance in S.A. Corey’s The Mercy of Gods Is modern science fiction's indulging in escapism rationalizing our own complicities? By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books The Death of The F*ck: Neopuritanism and Commercial Fiction How readers with presumably progressive politics are increasingly aligning with the far right on the moralization of sex. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books Michel Houellebecq and the Birth of the Incel “The idea gradually dawned on me that all these people – men or women – were not in the least deranged; they were simply lacking in love.” By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Issue 3 Rabbits with Eyeliner: Gender and Prosocial Education in LEGO Sets Why is LEGO telling us to pick up garbage? And who is LEGO telling to pick up garbage? By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Issue 3 The Writing Revolution Will Come When We Realize Our Collective Value Together, we can forge ahead and make something different. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books Building Our Own Palace of Dreams: The 1981 Novel that Envisioned the Modern Surveillance State A novel that stands above 1984 and Brave New World in prescience. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Issue 3 Outta the Pool: Remembering the Adult Swim Live Streams All you need to make art is a camera, a mic, and an idea. Maybe a cool fish tank too. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
2000s Nostalgia Ends Here: The 2000s Sucked, Actually A decade of recession, war, and fearmongering. But at least we had clear plastic electronics... By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Fiction Discussion Representation and Refraction: Gender and The Triple Goddess in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman For trans women of a certain generation, The Sandman left a lingering uneasiness. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Gaming Invisible Cities 2: Neopets as a Lived Space Neopets and French sociology, together at last. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Gaming Playing Fate: Choice and Doom in Gothic Gameplay Why play gothic games where we choose doom, inevitability, and inescapable cycles of despair? By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024