If You Liked The Martian You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts
Ridley Scott’s The Martian just had a massive $55 million opening weekend. Matt Damon stars…
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HitchBot Meets His Maker: What a Robot’s Murder Tells Us About Ourselves
A friendly robot Is murdered in the City of Brotherly Love.
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Newtown Tragedy: The Horror of No Future
We remember child martyrs in the crusades, young Holocaust victims like Anne Frank, the deaths of Emmett Till and four little girls in Birmingham, Alabama. The children of the day care center in Oklahoma City. Our enduring image from that dark day is a fireman, soaked in blood, carrying a baby on the cover of the magazines. Youth move us because they bring to the light the existential horror of no future.
Read MoreGod Versus Mega-Aliens
A science writer and a science fiction writer walk into a bar and debate science and human origins.
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Capricology: Big Ideas, Lack of Humanity
As the half-season closes on this sci-fi epic, we take inventory on where the show has gone, and gone wrong. Among the robots, avatars, and people who love them, there are a lot of big ideas, but not enough story.
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Capricology: A Robot is Being Tortured
Is it the inhumanity of the machines that will prove to be the tragic pivot in this science fiction world, or will it the inhumanity of the humans? Again we find ourselves asking: where does human consciousness begin?
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Capricology: Divine Madness
This week’s episode asks big questions about psychology and religion, and reminds us that a dog is a robot’s best friend.
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Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred
Welcome to the first installment of our ongoing coverage of television’s latest contribution to the cultural intersection of science and religion, with bonus themes to include: the body, artificial intelligence, paganism, original sin, immigration, and race. Join Diane Winston, Anthea Butler, Salman Hameed, and Henry Jenkins every week as they delve into deep exegesis of Caprica.
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Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating
In the ever more dystopian world of Syfy Channel’s Caprica, teenage girls inhabit robot bodies, or live eternally without bodies at all, human bodies are marked by memories, and all the while there is blood flowing in the virtual streets.
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Capricology Week 5: Fathers, Funerals, and the Ethics of Gaming
Tamara, the girl who is dead but doesn’t know it, who exists only within the “magic circle” of a virtual game, takes center stage in this week’s episode, and in our commentary.
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