Wasteland wrap-up #91
The weather turns, reflections on a year in Paris, the Machine slops, an early Elmore Leonard crime novel...
Doomsday Machines
Post-apocalyptic Road Trips, End of the World-building, and Interesting Times.
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Rage against the Machines
E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” (1909)
Wasteland wrap-up #90
An eclipse in Paris, my performance with the Kronos Quartet from last year, fallout shelter toilets, some not-great films and one pretty fun summer movie...
Nuclear thrones
The tricky problem of toilets in fallout shelters
Wasteland wrap-up #89
The August emptiness, bike sharing around Paris, another Hiroshima anniversary, time under Trump, AI and education, a new adaptation of L'Étranger, and a fire lookout walking simulator...
The scarred women of Hiroshima
The complicated political and cultural memory of the "Hiroshima Maidens"
Bomb shadows of the future
Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950)
Wasteland wrap-up #88
An event for the Oregon Road '83 game, the Extinction Symbol, the new Spider-Man movie, a film about how we memorialize the past...
Signs of the end times
What would be the opposite of the Doomsday Clock?
Wasteland wrap-up #87
An American reviews "La Bataille de Gaulle"...
How to fight a nuclear war in 1950
OFFTACKLE, the first US war plan after the loss of the nuclear monopoly
Wasteland wrap-up #86
A trip to Edinburgh, a British surrealist, nuclear films, the Odyssey, an overlooked Iain Banks novel, a talk on secret laboratories...