Posts have been thin on the ground. I’m in a funk. Due, no doubt, in part to Retrograde All the Things. One result is that everything I write just sounds like the most hypocritical crap. So I figure, why not leverage all this crankiness into a Mind Wars post. I...
This post ties directly to the very first post in this series (side note, if you want to catch up on any of my series, the Index is the place to go). I ended that article with only a brief mention of memetic engineering — the act of deliberately crafting memes...
I read 1984 at an extremely young and impressionable age. I think I was about 11 or 12, and very naive and sheltered (though clearly not censored in my reading). Note, this was long before the spate of young adult dystopian fiction that’s recently been so...
Narratology was birthed in the mid-60s as a spinoff of linguistics. The field started with a structuralist or definitional approach (universal elements or themes of narrative, definitions of narrative elements, etc.). In the past couple of decades however, the field...
This post has taken a really long time to finish. In part it’s because it’s been a rough couple of weeks, both out there in the world and in my household. It’s also because I’ve needed to employ the techniques in this email quite heavily during...
In case you’re not familiar with jailbreak in the tech sense, it’s “to enable use of a consumer electronics product not intended by the manufacturer through the exploitation of software hacks.” Kate MacDonald cracked open the idea in...
