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Bruce Sterling, whose ‘Shaper/Mechanist’ sequence
Alastair Reynolds • Galactic North




We are in a period which I think is dominated by two great cultural signifiers. An analog system that belonged to our parents, which has been shot full of holes. It is the symbol of the ruined castle. "Gothic High-Tech." The ruins of the unsustainable. And the other symbol is the favela slum, "Favela Chic," the informalized, illegalized, heavily ne... See more
Bruce Sterling • Atemporality for the Creative Artist

You can physically outlive the period in which explaining things in this way makes sense.