Excerpt: “Politics Is Personal”Below is a debate about the nature of climate politics, from my upcoming book Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures. For more…Feb 7, 2022Feb 7, 2022
Published inSolarpunksRendering the MessSolarpunk has always had a tricky aesthetic task. It is easy, now, for us to imagine the high energy cyberpunk urban dystopia, with all…Jun 5, 2020Jun 5, 2020
Published inImaginary PapersWhy Climate Fiction?How speculative fiction thinks about social change.Jan 29, 2019Jan 29, 2019
Published inImaginary PapersGhost Stories in the MachineHow science fiction about artificial intelligence uses horror tropes to explore our fears about minds and bodies.Oct 31, 2018Oct 31, 2018
How to Fix Avengers: Infinity WarCold open on Xandar. It’s a beautiful, utopian planet we got glimpses of in GotG. Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) is getting interviewed by…Sep 4, 2018Sep 4, 2018
What Happens NowA few weeks ago, in a fit of sleeplessness, I wrote an essay about the election. I intended to post this essay on election night. It was…Nov 9, 20162Nov 9, 20162
Published inSolarpunksOn the Political Dimensions of SolarpunkCan the new Tumblr-grown aesthetic break through the smog to change the Twenty-First Century conversation?Oct 14, 201513Oct 14, 201513