anticon was a time, a team, a blip on a screen, a group, a label, a stable of men.anticon was a movement, a moment, an underground scene, a business, a base, a stance against the status quo.anticon was a voice, a mic, a 4-track backing track, a collective, a corrective, a fix for the pre-millennium… Continue reading Joseph Rathgeber: anticon and Beyond
We’ve all heard and had so many conversations about and with large language models lately. They all seem to be running over the same ground, too. It’s exhausting. Leif Weatherby is the founding director of New York University’s Digital Theory Lab and Director of Digital Humanities. His research focuses on literary theory, digital culture, and… Continue reading Leif Weatherby: What We Talk About When We Talk About A.I.
Of all the unlikely evergreen subjects, famous serial killers might seem the most unlikely, yet there are new media about the big ones—and Ted Bundy certainly is one of those—every year. With The Bundy Archive: Genealogies of White Masculinity (University Press of Mississippi, 2026), Bryan J. McCann has exhumed Bundy to explain the relationship between… Continue reading Bryan J. McCann: Tending the Bundy Archive
Peter Relic and I were rivals. Unbeknownst to him, for decades, we were arch rivals. Coming out of high school and coming out of undergrad, I wanted to be working in magazines. My heroes — Andy Jenkins, Mark Lewman, and Spike Jonze — all worked in magazines — the coolest magazines. When I was in… Continue reading Peter Relic: Bust a Move
British author Steve Aylett’s writing has been described as “dreampunk,” “slipstream,” “bizarro,” “cyberpunk,” and “new weird,” among other things. I once wordily described it as follows: “He breaks down the myriad structures of the day, rearranges them into heretofore unseen configurations, and then describes the action along all-new interstices.” His books, which usually get stuck… Continue reading Steve Aylett: Vernacular Homicide
