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week 10 / 2026: futures and histories

week 10 / 2026: futures and histories

Reading round-up: defining “interiority” in fiction, and how it works; science fiction (and fantasy) as essentially historical in character; declining “declinism” in the struggle for a new media literacy. Plus a 1993 novel that feels like it was plucked from the fevered nightmares of Elon Musk.

worldbuilding from the shoulder: an interview with Bruce Sterling (part 2)

worldbuilding from the shoulder: an interview with Bruce Sterling (part 2)

It's finally here! The keenly anticipated second part of the Worldbuilding Agency interview with pioneering cyperpunk ideologue turned design critic and tech-art curator, the one and only Bruno Argento...

deliberate oxymorons: an interview with Bruce Sterling (part 1)

deliberate oxymorons: an interview with Bruce Sterling (part 1)

In the first part of this two-part interview, OG cyberpunk Bruce Sterling discusses the pursuit of deliberate oxymorons as a creative strategy, worldbuilding in the context of history and futurity, Berlusconi on the moon, and much, much more.