TERRORIZE THE FUTURE

How Akira's sci-fi horror explores body, artifice, and exploitation under capitalism by Meabh Cadigan To become something more than—or other than—human is a terrifying proposition. We don’t know where we come from or why we think, and so we hold

Masamune Shirow's cyberpunk masterpiece envisions a world where people, not just products, are mass produced by Nicola Kapron We now live in a world where nearly everything you can touch is being mass produced—everything except people. Masamune Shirow's 1989 manga

Cyberpunk faces a choice between stark materialism and subjectivity by Lapo Lappin The release of the long-awaited Cyberpunk 2077 was expected to be something of a turning point for the cyberpunk genre. Christening a work after a whole subculture is a

How sci-fi visions of vengeful androids recall white delusions of a Post-Reconstruction world by Michael Trigilio On June 12, 2021, the Washington Post reported a story out of Huntersville, North Carolina, about a planned event at a former human-trafficking and torture

Science Fiction in Non-Speculative Art by Kola Heyward-Rotimi To live in our contemporary era is to live thinking of a future in decay. The proliferation of digital environments has reconfigured how power is channeled through traditional outlets like nation-states, and the