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Great philosophers are great stylists too. Style in philosophy is the movement of concepts. This movement’s only present, of course, in the sentences, but the sole point of the sentences is to give it a life, a life of its own. Style is a set of variations in language, a modulation, and a straining of…
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We’re reading ENDER’S GAME AND PHILOSOPHY, edited by Kevin S Decker
arcfinity: Adam Roberts is in two minds about Blackwell’s latest pop-culture exegesis. Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford in Ender’s Game (dir. Gavin Hood, 2013) Ender’s Game and Philosophy Kevin S Decker (ed) Wiley, Blackwell, £11.15 PLATO: Since my master downed his hemlock daiquiri, oh how lonely I have been! And how keenly do I feel…
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My fantasy of success, then, was that my book, once it had been met with the hostile or indifferent stares I expected, would go out of print. Then, yellowing fragrantly on the SF shelves of secondhand book shops, it might voyage forward, up the time-stream, into some vaguely distant era in which a tiny coterie…
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it8bit: The Last Night Created by Tim & Adrien Soret A short, moody, cyberpunk adventure game in the spirit of Flashback & Blade Runner. It was originally a small flash game made in 6 days, which won the cyberpunkjam. You can play the original version here. Now the brothers have picked up the project and…
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wilwheaton: kittydoom: marsha-veliguro: Strange Days is a 1995 American cyberpunk thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The film was nominated for five Saturn Awards including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Writing for Cameron and Cocks and Best Actor for Fiennes, with Bassett winning Best Actress and Bigelow becoming the first woman to win the Saturn…
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thisistheverge: More than a replicant: ‘Moments Lost’ revisits ‘Blade Runner’ through music Moments Lost is a cyberpunk love letter in the form of a concept album. Its goal is simple: to craft new works inspired by the world of Blade Runner. To this end, several musicians, illustrators, and a writer have joined together to create…