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"A Fistful of Datas" The Holodeck malfunction returns in this charming tribute to the Spaghetti Western wamtng.substack.com/p/a-fistful-of… #TNG

Keep Going The simple challenge of Alain Badiou's 'ethic of truths' strangerworlds.substack.com/p/keep-going

Freedom has become conditional upon compliance, and horrifically we too cheered as the entire edifice of human rights came crashing down around us. onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/20…

Imperial Universes Isaac Asimov and the Golden Age of Science Fiction versus the revolt led by Frank Herbert strangerworlds.substack.com/p/imperial-uni…

"The means are the ends in progress." - Gandhi

"Schisms" As TNG begins to run out of good titles, the writing team reach for the thesaurus wamtng.substack.com/p/schisms #Trek

The Failure of Cyberpunk How Bruce Sterling's anthology Mirrorshades became the tombstone of science fiction movements strangerworlds.substack.com/p/the-failure-…

Knowledge Requires Freedom What connects the X-men's Cerebro and Enlightenment firebrand Johann Gottlieb Fichte? Other minds! strangerworlds.substack.com/p/knowledge-re…

"Thus Nietzsche reminds us that in general, whether we are talking paintings or musical compositions, or human beings, we, that is, most people, prefer the copy to the original. We like things to be as we imagine them to be. And AI is custom made for that." - Babette Babich

The Axe and the Tree A proverb from Africa grows into a reflection upon technology itself strangerworlds.substack.com/p/the-axe-and-…

The Forge of Ends The entrapment of thought within the domain of means and ends strangerworlds.substack.com/p/the-forge-of…

"When the danger is so great that death has become the hope, then despair is the hopelessness of not even being able to die." - S

"Suspicions" After TNG's previous disappointing attempts at a murder-mystery story, here's one more that doesn't quite work either wamtng.substack.com/p/suspicions #WAMTNG

"So, be welcome. Be welcome whoever you are. Be welcome whatever you believe. Be welcome here for as long as your can talk respectfully." onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/20…

"The Battle" The Ferengi return... and are completely overshadowed by Picard's old starship, the USS Stargazer wamtng.substack.com/p/the-battle #WAMTNG

The Mind is Everywhere Are our minds just software...? A curious 3-minute reflection on Rudy #Rucker and #Descartes at Stranger Worlds and How To Live In Them. strangerworlds.substack.com/p/the-mind-is-…

"Homeward" Season seven digs up another family member while exhuming two other old chestnuts: the Prime Directive and the Holodeck malfunction! wamtng.substack.com/p/homeward

"Language moves in the middle kingdom between the 'indefinite' and the 'infinite'; it transforms the indeterminate into a determinate idea, and then holds it within the sphere of finite determinations." - Ernst Cassirer

"Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, comfortable." - Susan Sontag

"Conspiracy" Season one reaches its climax with a monstrous thrill ride...! If only there wasn't one more episode still to go wamtng.substack.com/p/conspiracy #TNG