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PLUS: An exclusive newsletter feature on cyberpunk materiality by Shebonti Khandaker, our latest call for submissions, and our MUBI sci-fi watchlist

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We just launched Issue 12 🚀

Our last issue was out of the past, now we’re heading into the future. From the fashion in Her, to uncanny androids in Steven Spielberg’s A.I., to the cosmic pastoral in High Life, to iconic interfaces in sci-fi, this issue is all about looking to the future, near and far.

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Submissions OPEN for Issue 13 🏫

We’re now accepting submissions for Issue 13: TEEN until April 30th:

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Newsletter Feature ✨

When the Future Wasn’t Flat: An Ode to Cyberpunk Materiality

by Shebonti Khandaker

Movie still from Ghost in the Shell. A woman with a cityscape superimposed on her

Phones are making me sad again. Not because I’ve spent too many hours doomscrolling this week, but because they look and feel so, so boring. Despite the 2020s’ resurgence of anxieties about robots and artificial intelligence, I’m not seeing a resurgence in interesting science fiction that captures this zeitgeist. Looking back at the long-standing cyberpunk genre reveals the same narratives which proliferate now: state and corporate distrust at an all-time high, fears of technology-mediated social collapse, and questions about how to delineate between human and machine when the boundary is increasingly blurred. Amid today’s AI boom, this is all we talk about—yet our anxieties are plainer and uglier than ever before.

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