#lost futures

[paperbacks4today]

PAPERBACKS FOR TODAY # 19 : on through the nether we must go

I’m gonna throw a wild guess and say that Lost Futures cover might be a Marshall Arisman piece, or at the very least Arisman-lite? He was involved with the Dell Abyss line, though seemingly (as far as I can tell) with covering Kathe Koja’s novels.

Those in question…

Lost Futures by Lisa Tuttle, Dell Abyss 1992, art by [uncredited]

Death’s Master by Tanith Lee, DAW 1979, art by David Schleinkofer

Altered States by Paddy Chayefsky, Bantam 1979, art by Lou Feck (uncredited)

The Damnation Game by Clive Barker, Charter 1988, art by Marshall Arisman (uncredited)

[yellowmanula]

słuszne spostrzeżenie:

"Porównaj aktualną jałową scenę z płodnością wcześniejszych dekad, a natychmiast zostaniesz oskarżony o „nostalgię”. Jednak zależność współczesnych artystów od stylów ukształtowanych dawno temu sugeruje, że obecna chwila znajduje się w uścisku sformalizowanej nostalgii" - Mark Fisher "Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures"

[darkorbit]

They once believed the future would be gentle.

A city where machines hummed softly,

where the sky was never hostile,

and progress wore pastel colors instead of shadows.

Steel rose like hope,

glass reflected dreams,

and every street promised tomorrow.

This is not how the future became.

But perhaps…

this is how it was meant to be imagined.

[doctornolonger]

Once, Media was a contested ground, in which the impulse to educate was in tension with the injunction to entertain. Now – and the indispensable Lawrence Miles is incisive on this, as on so many other things, in his latest compendium of insights – Old Media is almost totally given over to a vapid notion of Entertainment… and so, increasingly, is education.

— Mark Fisher, "Choose Your Weapons" (2007)

[destructive-bot1]

IM BACK!!!

With vent art-

(⚠️Warning ⚠️: Eye strain, pixelated, substance abuse, bright colors.

And a little shading practice with my series of Lost Futures and a pride month S.

[themysticwood2]

Very excited to announce that two of my poems are being included in the upcoming issue of Lost Futures!

I've had a look at the proof, and it's both beautiful to look at and haunting to read.

I'll include the link here to purchase a copy, digital is also available!

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LOST FUTURES is a zine about worlds that could have been, should have been, or weren't. Futures that tried to bring themselves into existence but whose spark burned out. Of the lives you might have had if things were different.

volume 2: still life is a BIG OL' BUMPER EDITION. brace yourself for people lost in the changes of the pandemic, caught in the throes of addiction, or meditating on what they could've done differently. there's a lot of lost or frozen love in this issue, but also an exploration of drone music, a look back to the lessons of ferris bueller's day off, and a consideration what endlessly 'refreshing the feed' does to us.

[leifh345-blog]

Acid Communism

We are faced with the crisis of capitalism as the killer of futures, of the failure of people to imagine new futures beyond the horizons of modern society. The Ideology of Capitalist Realism forces us to only imagine and live within the framework of a capitalist society, and to lose our sense of original futures. We look the past, to cyberpunk and vaporwave aesthetics, to movie reboots, to robots and ideas already discovered; we are left destitute in our current times for something new.

Yet, there is hope for humanity. If we can break from the chains of capitalist economy, if we can be liberated by technology instead of fettered, if we can live outside the capitalist framework with new systems of change; then, we can imagine new futures. 

To the proletariat, I ask of you this: try to break away from the chains of societal constructs and imagine something new. Believe in a better future. Don’t lose faith in the agency of humanity and beauty of unity. We are the future, and we will either live or die as such.