Seemingly petty microphone squabbles have been a staple of hip-hop, but it's never quite been like this. J.Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross, and Drake are currently engaged in a battle… Read the rest of the article: Drake enlists AI in vegetarian rap beef

J.G. Ballard, whose relevance never waned during his writing career, is perhaps more relevant since his passing in 2009. His latest book, Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007 (The MIT Press, 2023), more… Read the rest of the article: Ballard from beyond: six of the famed author's redefinitions

The long-held promise of Artificial Intelligence was that machines would do all the drudge work and we would be left to create. In this AI-enabled utopia, assembly, construction, and hard… Read the rest of the article: Punk rocker Jenny Toomey takes stand against AI music

Rebecca Giggs' book Fathoms, subtitled "The World in the Whale," is a deep exploration of those largest of Earthlings, from the abject despair of a whalefall to the yawning poetry… Read the rest of the article: The whale-wide web of undersea song

Rebecca Giggs' book Fathoms, subtitled "The World in the Whale," is a deep exploration of those largest of Earthlings, from the abject despair of a whalefall to the yawning poetry… Read the rest of the article: Humans becoming whales in the Internet's digital ocean

Unlike other war movies, writer/director Alex Garland's Civil War (trailer) is told from the point of view of those behind the cameras. War photographers in search of the elusive moneyshot,… Read the rest of the article: "Civil War" is an isolating, information-starved psychological horror

A celebrated science fiction author who spun wild tales of subversive cat women and psychic sex parties led a shocking double life — as the military mastermind behind America's psychological… Read the rest of the article: This sci-fi author had a secret life as psychological warfare mastermind

John Oakes' new book The Fast: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Promise of Doing Without, which analyzes everything from the absence of sound to the (obvious) absence of food, uses… Read the rest of the article: Opting out: the freeing philosophy of avoidance and refusal