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‘Super Sad’ And Satiric, Two Stories Of Doomed Love

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:08:08 +0000

Gary Shteyngart’s dystopian novel narrates two doomed romances: one between a man and a woman, and one between a writer and his country — or what he fears his country may become. By turns fierce, funny and frightening, Super Sad True Love Story deserves a place on the shelf beside 1984 and Brave New World.

Disciplined Bozeman HR director takes lower post

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:08:29 +0000

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) A Bozeman city employee who was disciplined for her role in a hiring policy that asked job candidates to share login codes to personal Internet sites like Facebook is stepping down from her position for a lower post.

Super Sad True Love Story – By Gary Shteyngart

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:08:04 +0000

Today Ive made a major decision: I am never going to die.

Take Splice, add Inception: the possible recipe for a big-screen Neuromancer | Ben Child

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:08:15 +0000

Splice director Vincenzo Natali has rustled up a brilliant GM horror tale. It makes him the ideal choice to finally bring William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel to the screen Every year there are a couple of science-fiction movies that really stand out as original pieces of thinking, while managing to make some sort of headway with audiences. Last year, we had Moon and District 9, and 2010 looks like …

The Comic Book Club: X-Men, Superman and Parker

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:08:16 +0000

This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse, Mike Williams, Graeme McMillan and Lev Grossman discuss the second issue of X-Men: Second Coming, Superman #701 and Darwyn Cooke’s one-shot The Man with the Getaway Face. DOUGLAS: [...]

Love in the Time of Technology

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:08:05 +0000

In his first two novels his blini-wrapped Bildungsroman, The Russian Debutantes Handbook, and his highly absurdist Absurdistan Gary Shteyngart coaxed his darkest humor out of imagined settings, alternate universes only one step removed from our own. Its the satirists smartest tool. Rather than appear a moralizing prig, invent a blow-up doll version of that thing you want to deride or …

Love in a Time of Dystopia

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:08:22 +0000

In the popular imagination of the 1980s, America was a utopia, Russia a dystopia; but then the cold war warmed and everywhere became equally tepid. It’s a mediocre life we live now in America: Our economy is an unnatural disaster; our environment a wreck; and our present enemies constitute no empire-they merely compose grainy videos in cave shelters, ride mules and set our own jetliners against …

FPI Overnight Brief: June 25, 2010

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:08:05 +0000

President Obama said Thursday that there will be no additional changes for now in his leadership team on Afghanistan, but that he will be “insisting on unity of purpose” and “paying very close attention” to its performance.

Rights group: new Kyrgyz raid on Uzbek area

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:08:23 +0000

OSH, Kyrgyzstan — Troops beat several dozen men and women in an Uzbek neighborhood in southern Kyrgyzstan’s main city on Tuesday in a raid that deepened refugees’ fears about returning to an area seared by an eruption of deadly ethnic violence, Human Rights Watch reported. Kyrgyzstan – Osh – United States – Government – Central Asia

The Nazario Appointment

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:08:29 +0000

Of the 250 reported midnight appointees of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, a particular appointment of a jurist stands out: that of retired Supreme Court Justice Minita Chico-Nazario as chair of the Philippine National Oil Company -Exploration Corporation (PNOC-EC).

In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:08:43 +0000

The Singularity movement sees a time when human beings and machines will merge and overcome illness and perhaps death.

Who’s Afraid of the Singularity?

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:08:43 +0000

News Analysis: With futurists planning for the so-called Singularity, the question is no longer what it will be, but how we will keep it from destroying the very nature of humanity.

Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:08:28 +0000

ASHLEE VANCE The Singularity movement sees a time when human beings and machines will merge and overcome illness and perhaps death.

Gary Shteyngart: Kokiri.

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:08:43 +0000

June 1, Rome. Lucky diary! Undeserving diary! From this day forward, you will travel on the greatest adventure yet undertaken by a nervous, average man sixty-nine inches in height, a hundred and sixty pounds in heft, with a slightly dangerous body-mass index of 23.6. From this day forward . . .

Extended Video Interview: Vincenzo Natali, Director of Splice

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:08:43 +0000

A few weeks ago, after Splice screened in Boston for the first time, I had the opportunity to sit down with director Vincenzo Natali for a lengthy, 35-minute long interview. Vincenzo spoke about how he first got his start directing films, his attitude towards the Cube sequels, the themes of Splice, and his approach towards adapting Neuromancer and High Rise. Plus, some insights about the ending …

Vincenzo Natali Officially Announced as Director of Neuromancer

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:08:43 +0000

Because it’s been a story confirmation kinda evening (Pirates 4 casting, Breaking Dawn split, etc) why not throw out the official confirmation of a movie that could be a bit more exciting than those others? We’d heard not long ago that Splice director Vincenzo Natali would direct an adaptation of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer, and now there’s an official release making the news, er …

‘Splice’: Gene Genie, By Kurt Loder

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:08:51 +0000

Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody on the post-human beat.

State of Play: Out of Characters

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:08:29 +0000

Game protagonists have hit a creative slump. It’s time for someone new.

Deitch Speaks! His Guggenheim Talk on Art, Pop Culture, MOCA and Gaga

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:08:29 +0000

In March, I mentioned that I had attended a public talk at the Guggenheim Museum by Jeffrey Deitch , LA MOCA’s director-designate, after which I chatted with him and learned of his plans to continue selling art from his gallery’s inventory, even after he assumes the directorship of the museum on June 1.

Science Fiction or Science Future? Critics Hail THE MACHINERY OF LIGHT as Prophetic View of 22nd Century Space Warfare

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:08:29 +0000

Bantam Dell’s release this week of David J. Williams’ THE MACHINERY OF LIGHT marks the conclusion of the Autumn Rain trilogy, which has been hailed as a compelling vision of future warfare. Leading thinkers have praised Williams’ books for their realistic depiction of where the arms race in space might be heading, and critics have compared his fiction to that of Tom Clancy and Bruce Sterling.