REVIEW: Huesera: The Bone Woman
Director Michelle Garza Cervera's feature debut expertly mines horror from the pains of motherhood and the travails of gender expectations by Michael Zendejas There’s a lot that makes Huesera: The Bone Woman, Michelle Garza Cervera’s 2022 feature directorial debut, truly impressive. There's
An A.I. Utopia Is No Place For Humans
The A.I. future we’re being offered has little use for human labor—or human beings at all by Christopher Pearce Over the last year, an unlikely path to automated utopia has come into view. Built on an endless amount of stolen artistic labor,
The Fanatic: Creation, Destruction, & Belief – A Video Essay
A wide-ranging analysis of the scifi films Noah (2014) and Prometheus (2012) by Josh McNamee Camus said that there was only one properly serious question in philosophy, and that is suicide. But the question of whether we should embrace annihilation is inherently
The Scent of Knowledge
AI isn’t the end of knowledge. It’s the birth of meta-knowledge. by Kurt Schiller // Illustration by Vin Tanner Technology has always had an uneasy relationship with the truth. The birth of the printing press was accompanied not only by an upswing in
Is The Flash Running on Empty?
DC's latest blockbuster attempt is an entertaining spectacle, but misses every opportunity to have real depth by Josh McNamee Warning: This review may contain mild spoilers for The Flash. Credit is surely due to Andy Muschietti for getting this one over the
A Ghost in the Academy
Academia's growing reliance on AI is nothing new—but what that means for the future of education remains unclear by Ryan Walraven // Illustration by Caterina Gerbasi It starts with a blinking green cursor. A geometric shape alive with energy and then dark
No Excuses for AI Art
There's no room for compromise between working artists and those who seek to innovate them out of existence by Hazel Zorn When Jason Allen’s AI-generated artwork won first place in the Colorado State Fair’s digital arts competition, he told the Washington Post
The Digital Age of Enlightenment
Chen Qiufan and Kai-Fu Lee's much-lauded short story collection is more interested in AI boosterism than real inquiry by Esteban Hernandez In 2019, “State of Trance,” a short story co-written by Chinese science fiction author Chen Qiufan, took top prize in a
SUCK, FUCK, KILL
The psychosexual nightmare of the erotic thriller by Kurt Schiller None of us are what we seem. The meekest and mousiest of us may conceal hidden depths of rage and passion. The angriest, pushiest, most superficially dominant person may wilt like a
We Accept Her: 90 Years of Freaks
Though it ought to be a snapshot of a bygone era, Tod Browning's classic film still feels like a reflection by Kathryn Finch In 2008, Richard Butchins’ documentary The Last American Freakshow was summarily rejected from the London Disability Film Festival. Butchins’