MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

Category: FICTION IN PHASE SPACE

  • The Eternal Champion

    The Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary The Eternal Champion, particularly Elric of Melniboné, revolves around three orders: Elric’s Lack and the Desire for the Other Lacan suggests that humans are forever driven by a sense of lack and the desire for the Other, a wholeness we can never achieve. Elric embodies the Lacanian concept…

  • The Hero’s Journey

    Here are 20 often overlooked aspects of the Hero’s Journey and Joseph Campbell’s work: Certainly! Here’s an expanded explanation of those points: 1. Complexity of Archetypes Oversimplification: Archetypes like the Hero, Mentor, or Trickster are often boiled down to one-dimensional roles in storytelling, where the Hero is always courageous, the Mentor is wise and supportive,…

  • The New Turin Tests

    It’s curious, isn’t it? The oblique complexity of Joyce, Deleuze, Faulkner, Proust, Burroughs, and Pynchon—their sprawling, fractured narratives and arcane syntaxes—once barriers to entry, now serve as the final measure of human intellect. They have ascended from their status as difficult, inaccessible tomes to become something more insidious: the Turing Test of the human mind.…

  • The Non Existent Knight

    Of Empty Armor and Absurd Quests The first time I read The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino, I imagined I had stumbled onto a lost Monty Python script—one written in secret, translated from the Italian, and perhaps smuggled through time in a hollowed-out codpiece. There it all was: the self-serious knight with no self, the…

  • The Space Merchants

    The Space Merchants—a book that captures today’s farcical present and inevitable future better than any Orwellian or Huxleyan fever dream. Forget 1984; this is a world where satire from 20 years ago gets picked up by the tech industry and polished into grim reality. What was once a joke is now a business model, and…

  • The Ten Commandments (Interzone Remix)

    Deep in the control zones, where steel meets flesh and reality bends like a junkie’s dream, the Word squirmed into existence. Not whispered by angels, but carved by the iron claws of power, the Ten Commandments pulsed with the cold logic of control. Commandment One: No static but mine. Tune in, tune out, but stay…

  • The Tower

    Act I: The Creation Ennio leaned over the glowing holographic drafting table, his fingers tracing the edges of a spiraling design that floated midair. In the dim light of his studio, the city outside shimmered like a restless constellation, its towers clawing at the sky in jagged competition. His studio, a sleek capsule perched above…

  • The Wizard of Oz vs the Trial

    The Wizard of Oz and Kafka’a The Trial are distant cousins: find ten plot or character or function similarities “The Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum and “The Trial” by Franz Kafka are indeed distinct works with different tones and themes. However, we can still identify some plot, character, and functional similarities between the…

  • The ZIRPification Of Lore

    Ah, the ZIRPification of lore. A term as potent as it is unsettling, conjuring a realm where backstory becomes a suffocating miasma, a narrative equivalent of quantitative easing run amok. Just as central banks distort markets with artificially low interest rates, excessive lore warps the very fabric of a story. Imagine, dear reader, a text…

  • Tuchman’s Use of Plot Technology

    Tuchman’s work is a prime example of the use of plot technology to create a narrative that is both compelling and entertaining. The idea behind plot technology is that things happen in a story because the plot dictates that they should, rather than due to any logical or realistic reason. This is why, in Tuchman’s…