This is part II of our four-part series (I, IIIa, IIIb, interlude, IV) looking at what I’ve termed ‘the Fremen mirage,’ after the fiction people from the science fiction novel Dun…
Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part IV: Desert Power
This is Part IV of our four-and-three-quarters part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, interlude) on the Fremen Mirage. We began by sketching out the basic outline of this pop theory of history: that a lac…
Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part I: War at the Dawn of Civilization
This week’s post is the first in a four part series (II, IIIa, IIIb, interlude, IV) looking at what I’m going to term the Fremen Mirage (a play on Le Mirage Spartiate, which we’ve…
Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Interlude: Ways of the Fremen
This week we’re breaking out of the main series of posts on the Fremen Mirage (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) to answer a brewing discussion that has been running in the comments: does Dune exist within …
Collections: The Fremen Mirage Part IIIa: …by the Princess Irulan
This is Part IIIa of our four-part series (I, II) looking at what I’ve termed the ‘Fremen Mirage.’ We defined the core tenets of this pop-historical notion in more detail in the f…
Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part IIIb: Myths of the Atreides
This is Part IIIb of our four-and-three-quarters part series (I, II, IIIa) on what we’re calling the Fremen Mirage. Last week, we traced the origins of this idea in the Greek and Roman ethnog…
Blades of Mirage - Official Playtest Release Window Trailer | The MIX Summer Game Showcase 2026 - IGN
Get a look at the Playtest Release Window Trailer for Blades of Mirage, an isometric action-adventure game developed by Agate. Players will embody Mira to use her ability to create water-based weapons and explore ancient ruins scattered across unique islands. Confront corrupted, powerful creatures and solve intricate puzzles to secure the ancient relics. Blades of Mirage is coming soon to PC (Steam), with a playtest launching in July 2026 on Steam.
The long season of langdev
The book The Burning World by J.G. Ballard is a post-apocalyptic science fiction tale about the near complete dissipation of water from the surface of the Earth.
The Oceanic provenance of Permacomputing and Computational poetics
Heritage Frontiers in Computational Art: The Oceanic provenance of Permacomputing and Computational poetics (2024) Nancy Mauro-Flude Keywords heritage algorithms, Oceana, codework, future heritage, technē, digital decolonisation, sandboxing, in-formal cultural economies, philosophy of technology, critical media theory. Citation: Mauro-Flude, N. (2024). Heritage Frontiers in Computational Art: The Oceanic Provenance of Permacomputing and Computational Poetics. Originally presented at ISEA, the updated version is available at Autoluminescence Institute. Initially presented June 26, 2024 at [ISEA2024](https://expertevents.
One Morning at Lake Tūtira · Jos Buurmans Photography
Landscape Photography in the Fog
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To Walk This Distant Shore with You by A.D. Sui
“There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New Suns”: Recovering Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Parables | Los Angeles Review of Books
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After the Deluge: What Future for Climate Fiction? - Public Books
Even in a world remade, the past defines the present.
Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part II: The Fremen Jihad
This is the second part (I, II) of our somewhat silly look about the plausibility of warfare in Frank Herbert’s Dune. Last week, we looked at the system of warfare that is dominant in the set…
