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Anthropocene Gothic
Steven Shaviro reviews "Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth," a new academic collection of weird ecocriticism edited by Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Höglund....
Steven Shaviro
Steven Shaviro teaches film studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, and he writes mostly about science fiction and music videos.
Articles
The Future Is Always with Us: On Jennifer Marie Brissett’s “Destroyer of Light”
Steven Shaviro reviews the new novel by Jennifer Marie Brissett, “Destroyer of Light.”...
Never Very Far from What Is Happening Right Now
The world of Andrea Hairston’s “Master of Poisons” is rich, strange, and exhilaratingly beautiful; it is also violent and terrible....
The Story-as-Database
Elysium is a book about identity politics, about history and collective memory, about technology and culture, and ultimately about extermination and genocide....
Ferociously Intellectual Pulp Writing
PETER WATTS’ NEW novel Echopraxia is science fiction on steroids — or better, on some intensely mind-bending and energizing drug that hasn't been invented yet. Watts writes "hard" science fiction, focused on the themes of posthuman mutations and technologically enhanced sensory and ...
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