Books

TOKYO GHOST [Image Comics – Rick Remender & Sean Murphy, Matt Hollingsworth 2015]

November 30, 2015 Respond

“Look I didn’t create the problem. Robotics did the farming, mining, manufacturing, construction… Everything. Left an unemployed population with a lot of free time. So I keep them entertained. I make them comfortable. So I gave them each their own channel. When human life became worthless I gave it Value” – Mr Flak founder of…
Aila Sara – Illustrations

February 21, 2013 Respond

a colection of illustrations from romanian artist Aila Sara
The Forced moulting of working class exoskeletons [2012 show/booklet by Iulia Gabriela Toma]

February 9, 2013 Respond

Planetneukoln.tv should allow more artist books, brochures, leaflets, catalogues into its ranks. So I am glad to wonder about a booklet published in parallel with a group show roughly titled What we destroy and celebrate in the same time at the Salonul de proiecte în Bucharest at the end of last year. It’s also a…
Terminator I by Randall Frakes & W.H. Wisher(Romanian translation from 1994,editura Elit Comentator Bucharest)

December 11, 2012 Respond

I got this book from our friend at toate.org from a fleamarket raid ending with a few other classix such as The Sphere. This was the book the movie was based on. There are several reasons why I started reading it. First, because it introduced the cyborg as a pop phenomenon into the US. Particularly…
Discipline and Control in the Post-9/11 Superhero Film: The Cyborg Superhero

November 8, 2012 Respond

Re-post with the kind permission of the author. This is an excerpt from Dan Hassler-Forest [tw @DanHF] timely book Capitalist Superheroes about the new roles old DC/Marvel caped superheroes have been called to play in a new post-Fordist capitalist pop economy. This particular excerpt hints at how enhanced costumes, data visualization, intuitive GUIs, panoptic surveillance,…
selfmademusic feat p.n.e.a. – the planet is glowing aglow aglow (abstract comic book)

October 17, 2012 Respond

Short abstract story by artur ditu aka selfmademusic and p.n.e.a. for Kinema Ikons Intermedia of 2008. A low-fi schi-fi trip on a deserted planet untouched by man. An astronaus talking to his friends and family wanting to get back home on his plastic planet. The planet is entirely made from mold with the astronaut beign…
MOMO 1973

October 9, 2012 Respond

Cartea a fost publicat pentru prima oara in 1973. Momo, povestea fantastica a lui Michael Ende, se potriveste timpurilor noastre. Tema romanului este timpul si felul in care acesta este folosit de oameni. In ruinele unui amfiteatru, la perifia unui oras fara nume, traieste Momo, o fetita cu origini misterioase, imbracata cu un palton vechi…
Isaac Asimov – Nightfall

October 4, 2012 Respond

from wikipedia: ” “Nightfall” is a 1941 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated at all times on all sides. It was adapted into a novel with Robert Silverberg in 1990. The short story has been included into 48 anthologies, and has appeared in six collections of Asimov’s stories.…