Notes About Networks

This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. Where Do Cyborgs Come From? The term cyborg is as evocative and cuts as elusive a figure now...

Posted by mistersquid on September 29, 2010 9:09 AM

“Fresh as harvest day.”0

While notable for its pioneering visual effects, Michael Anderson's 1976 Logan’s Run has been relatively neglected as a result of its defiantly clumsy scriptwriting and remarkably bad plotting. After the film’s release, several attempts were made to build a...

Posted by mistersquid on July 18, 2006 12:35 PM

The Two Cultures: A Flame War

Over at  Slashdot a  thread regarding the submission of a junk science fiction novel to a vanity publisher  winds its way to the Sokal Affair, the Spring/Summer 1996 publication by  Social Text  of Alan Sokal’s “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward...

Posted by mistersquid on February 6, 2005 12:00 AM