987 – Surrogates (2009)

timespace coordinates: 2017  Boston

Surrogates is a 2009 American science fiction mystery film, based on the 2005–2006 comic book series The Surrogates. Directed by Jonathan Mostow, it stars Bruce Willis as Tom Greer, an FBI agent who ventures out into the real world to investigate the murder of surrogates (humanoid remote controlled robots). It also stars Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, Ving Rhames, and James Cromwell.

The film’s main concept centers on the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase remote-controlled humanoid robots through which they interact with society. These fit, attractive, remotely controlled robots ultimately assume their life roles, enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes.  (wiki)

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945 – SuperGrid (2018)

timespace coordinates: near future CanadaSuperGrid is a Canadian post-apocalyptic road movie directed by Lowell Dean, who previously directed horror-comedies WolfCop and Another WolfCop. The film stars Leo Fafard, Marshall Williams, Natalie Krill, Jonathan Cherry, Amy Matysio and Jay Reso.

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939 – IO (2019)

timespace coordinates: post-cataclysmic EarthIO is a 2019 American science fiction film directed by Jonathan Helpert. It stars Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie and Danny Huston. It was released on January 18, 2019, by Netflix.

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“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T. S. Eliot

900 – NeonCode (2018 video game)

NeonCode is a one hour long cyberpunk-retrowave adventure game (one-man project). It was inspired by classics such as the Blade Runner-movies, Miami Vice, Grim Fandango and the games of Telltale. The game is mixing the open world gamestyle with some classic adventure game elements.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (MINIMUM): OS: Windows 10 / Processor: AMD A8-5600 or similar i5 /Memory: 8 GB RAM / Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT710 or similar (2Gb VRAM) /Storage: 5 GB available space

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***NeonCode is a free adventure game***

https://neoncodegame.wordpress.com/   /   steam

0883 – Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007 Documentary)

The definitive three-and-a-half hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic Blade Runner (1982), culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost footage.

imdb / 0072 – Blade Runner Ambience – Sounds Of The City 2019 / 0400 – Blade Runner / 0475

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Nick Land (born 17 January 1962) is an English philosopher, short-story horror writer, blogger, and “the father of accelerationism“. His writing is credited with pioneering the genre known as “theory-fiction”. A cofounder of the 1990s collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, his work has been tied to the development of accelerationism and speculative realism.  (Wikipedia)

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 Dark Enlightenment

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Left Accelerationism and Xenofeminism (Helen Hester+Nick Srnicek)

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868 – William T. Vollmann

The Most Honest Book About Climate Change Yet

“Vollmann’s undertaking is in the vanguard of the coming second wave of climate literature,  books written not to diagnose or solve the problem, but to grapple with its moral consequences.”

No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies

No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies: 2

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