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Arts in Society

Athena Dreams of a Hollow Body

Once I learned of the existence of mothers, I decided to order one for myself.

JR Fenn

Arts in Society

The Reformatory

Stories are dangerous. They can get you killed.

Tananarive Due

Arts in Society

Dulltopia

The monotony of slow cinema defamiliarizes our world and enables us to see it critically.

Mark Bould

Arts in Society

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans

We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.

Henry Farrell

Arts in Society

A Strategy for Ruination

An interview with China Miéville.

China Miéville

Arts in Society

Sky Veins of Potosí

“You used terms such as revolutionaries. Comrades. And, most illegally of all: lovers. Unmarried people who fuck each other without the goal of childrening. Well, I was sunk.” A tale of forbidden love in an age when corporations have replaced government.

Jordy Rosenberg

Arts in Society

Indefinitely

Life is for living, my dead mother said.

Lindsay R. Taylor

Arts in Society

All the Places Without Windows

He will surprise her on the anniversary of the end.

Mike Jeffrey

Arts in Society

My Last Client

“I wanted his body to begin and end elsewhere, at home, meaning his home, wherever that was, meaning even I, whose job was to include him, wanted him out.”

Kristen Gleason

Arts in Society, Podcast

History Is a Dystopia

After the slave trade and colonization, history has become a dystopia.

Tananarive Due

Arts in Society

Sunflowers

Eventually, it became obvious that we didn’t have a mission. Or our mission, for what it’s worth, was the lack thereof.

Bryan Washington

Arts in Society

Imagine Every Light Is a Woman Who Came to the City Alone

A mother is a mother, regardless of the latest information regarding her children.

Sarah Bruni

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