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CLI-FI
TERROR AND TERRAFORMATION
Wind, Water, Solar
January 31, 2022 Morphizm 0
Happy New Year, Earthlings.
I have spent it so far among the elements.
Swim with me a bit.
The Beatles' Bizarro Boxing Day
December 26, 2021 Morphizm 0
On this day, after the one known so well as Christmas, The Beatles beamed a sloppy, surreal cult standout into holiday televisions, confounding many and captivating few.
Happy Birthday, Loveless
November 4, 2021 Morphizm 0
It's hard to believe that My Bloody Valentine's epochal Loveless debuted 30 years ago. Few releases since have been as singular, riveting, exploratory, immediately identifiable.
Goodbye Cali, As We Knew You
August 31, 2021 Morphizm 0
As the West is consumed by fire, as predicted fo so long, it is time to bow to my past which no longer exists.
Be The Birdgirl
March 27, 2021 Morphizm 0
Nearly two decades (and 40 million viewers) after signal boosts from early adopters like yours truly, Adult Swim reboots Harvey Birdman's postmodern satire for an intersectional epoch.
Cli-Fi: Avatar Studios Awakens
February 25, 2021 Morphizm 0
Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra finally arrive at a compromise, from opposite coordinates.
The Beatles Let It Get Back
Enjoy this holiday sneak peek of The Beatles: Get Back, knowing its reprogramming is all we have left of The Beatles, as the original fades.
Socially Distancing McCartney III
Fifty years after the passing of The Beatles, McCartney has again added his voice to our turbulent time.
Between Utopia and Armageddon: Matthew Rankin's Transgressive Twentieth Century
November 26, 2020 Morphizm 0
"I see this 21st Century malaise reaching its snapping point," Rankin explained. "Last century saw the rise of innumerable idealistic movements. This traumatized world is the one we inherited."
Ten (More) Climate Crisis Demands For The Biden (Obama) Administration
Twelve years ago, on the cusp of a new administration, I crafted a list to save the world from climate crisis. Here we go again (again).
Unhappy Halloween, Gravediggaz
October 31, 2020 Morphizm 0
Two presidential terms ago, I bowed deep before a momentous election to the Gravediggaz, hoping to exorcise eight years of apocalyptic Republican rule. Here we go again.
Korra, Uncensored
The most powerful woman on television is back on television, where she belongs. We need her, more than ever.
Swervedriver's Petroleum Daze
July 24, 2020 Morphizm 0
Three decades after its thunderous arrival, Swervedriver's sonic legacy is in the history books. Unfortunately. It has to share space with climate crisis authoritarians
Goodbye, The Beatles (Again)
May 8, 2020 Morphizm 0
Fifty years ago, The Beatles tragically left us, after changing the world for almost a decade. And what they left us with, like much of what they made, sequenced the genes for the recombined culture to come.
Unhappy Anniversary, Deepwater Horizon
April 20, 2020 Morphizm 0
The bad news? A decade later, Deepwater Horizon remains one the worst environmental disasters in human history. The good news? A decade later, oil is dead.
Ten Years After: Earth Strikes Back
A decade ago, I wrote about the myriad ways our planet would refuse to put up with us. Today, I look back, during a global lockdown, as a zoonotic dystopia borne from our ceaseless invasion of Earth ravages so-called civilization.
Zoonosis: Climate Crisis and Coronavirus
Zoonoses are infectious diseases that fatally strike back after humanity extracts too deeply from their non-human environments, which are under repeated siege from capitalism and worse.
Happy New Year, Sym-Bionic Titan!
January 1, 2020 Morphizm 0
What I wanted this year was one of the greatest animated series ever, created by one of the greatest animators ever, to blessedly return for a second chance at changing programming as usual.
US Residential Solar Market Hits Record High
We're on the right track to solarization. We just need speed up the pace, brighen up this planet, and save our sorry asses.
The (Blessed) Return Of El-P
December 6, 2019 Morphizm 0
Correcting an historical injustice, El-P's singular, relevant back catalogue will finally return to the land of material and digital reality.
DJ Shadow Chronicles Our Pathetic Age
Givng thanks on Thanksgiving for the letters DJ Shadow has been sending, explaining why and where and how the music from his latest, perhaps greatest effort, Our Pathetic Age, was born.
Ten Years After: Cli-Fi
September 17, 2019 Morphizm 0
A decade ago, I helped give birth to a movement. It doesn't matter if anyone knows. All that matters is the movement.
Happy Birthday, The Iron Giant!
Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, director Brad Bird's masterpiece of war and peace has only grown in legend and influence
Watching The Watchmen (Again)
Elite powers cashing in on actual historical crises whose failures literally led us to where we are today.
Rest In Peace, Vertigo (Again)
June 23, 2019 Morphizm 0
When comics influential Karen Berger left DC Comics after leading its mature, visionary imprint Vertigo into the history books, I wrote at Wired that Vertigo would soon follow. I was on or off by a few years, give or take a few years.
DIVE WITH ME
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Everything, Everywhere, Everyday
Those of us who have been watching Michelle Yeoh with admiration for years — and those of us who have been wishing just as long that sci-fi would dream with more ambition — have unearthed the eternal motherlode.
A Touch of Zen (Again)
A cli-fi masterpiece of nature and power, violence and the sacred.
How has it taken me this long to see? What does it matter?
Unhappy Halloween: COP26, DOOM
It is probably not an accident that hip hop legend MF DOOM passed away on the same hallowed holiday our superpowers converged on an environmental conference implementing a legally binding agreement to stop destroying Earth.
Future Boy Conan, Miyazaki's Hidden Masterpiece
Hayao Miyazaki has mastered the art of cli-fi. And yet so many of his earlier visions have remained out of sight and out of mind.
GREENVESTING
Berkeley Bound
I Am Greta's Clarion Call
The One. The Only.
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