Power Over the Story is Power Over All: Dune and the Messiah Machine
What’s a Lisan Al-Gaib, and why should we care?
Anthropology
Book Review: Beyond colonial futures – Ethnofuturism and World Beyond: An Anthology of Papua New Guinean Speculative Fiction
By Christopher Marcatili McGavin, Kirsten (ed.). 2022. World Beyond: An anthology of Papua New Guinean Speculative Fiction. Sydney, Aus: Hibiscus…
Book Review: Played Out – Difference and Repetition in Classic Board Games
By Samuel Gerald Collins Patkin, Terri Toles (2021). Who’s in the Game? Identity and Intersectionality in Classic Board Games. Jefferson, North Carolina:…
The Death of Outer Space Dreams: Hard Decisions and a War of Utopian Demands
“What if we found new ways of existing in the harsh places we’ve ruled out on our homeworld, before forcing ourselves into the ecosystems of others? What if we revisited the ways of the ancient sea-faring cultures and the desert nomads? Drawing inspiration not from the speculative but from the real, the here, the now, the pragmatic and the historic.”
Finance is Funds and Games Until It Stops (For Hedge Funds in New York)
By Nazli Azergun Two weeks ago, we experienced a flamboyant coda to an extremely eventful month. Between processing the assault…
The Geek Anthropologist 