Zazous
"Êtes-vous swing?"
Culture
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
Cosmonaut Keep
"It’s the outline, the structure, the architecture, if you will, that counts.”
Once Upon a Honeymoon
"Suave antifa films that were also rollicking entertainment were, briefly, the state of the art."
Pattern Recognition
"Working as a consulting semiotician can be fun… but it can take a toll."
Snow Crash
"Humans are wired to seek meaning… and this wiring renders us easily manipulated."
Ubik
"Every hypothesis that Joe and his teammates posit, every interpretation of how this semiosphere works, is frustrated."
Engine Summer
"Is this an actual thing I’m putting together, or am I fooling myself?"
Babel-17
"Babel-17 is a language of dense precision; each word opens up into a vast idea-complex."
Cat’s Cradle
“No damn cat, and no damn cradle.”
The Soft Machine
"Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine"
The Einstein Intersection
Myths can and will control us… unless we study how myths work.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
"Puzzling over cultural fragments that we cannot immediately comprehend…"
Media Diet
"This is what fascinates me about reading the classics: the same questions arise again and again."
Media Diet
"Good-natured comedy is what my brain is craving, at least for now."