Why I Live in a Shed
Catrina Davies
16th January, 2019
From the archives, a short essay about home and the UK housing crisis.
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Dear Sophie
Nina Pick
25th April, 2018
'Writing prose is like giving birth...' Nina Pick's letter to her unborn child.
In the Clearing
Nick Hunt
11th December, 2017
The timing’s perfect, actually. It’s a great example of the stupid culture the Clearing was built to...
2016: Toward the Deep Future
John Michael Greer
19th January, 2017
. That wasn’t always the case. As recently as the 1970s, imaginary tomorrows that went...
2016: Donald Trump Ushers in the Anti-Future Age
Hal Niedzviecki
20th December, 2016
When US high-tech industry CEOs started a lobbying and education group to advance the cause...
Flight Path
Charlotte Du Cann
29th August, 2016
Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used their culture...
The Listening Post
Christy Rodgers
18th July, 2016
'I don’t remember how old I was when I was taught to tend the listening post...' A dispatch from an arid future.
Where is Pyotr Zhukov?
Robin Jones
6th April, 2016
Today a guard asks, ‘Where is Pyotr Zhukov?’ There is no answer. The guard asks...
Of Pond Brains and Humanity 2.0
Tom Smith
30th March, 2016
If thou shouldst plant these things in thy firm understanding and contemplate them with good...
Of Pond Brains and Humanity 2.0 Part I: Theoteknosis
Tom Smith
27th January, 2016
The Ark is envisioned to take the form of a ball of genetically-engineered soil, an...