1. Estrangement is a term that Suvin adapts from Brecht. This is pretty well-known. What gets mentioned less often is that cognition also co...

Oisin Murphy-Lawless has written a piece for the Scottish Book Trust about Iain Banks and games , prompting me to excavate this nugget on th...

"The misfortune of his brothers, of the whole species, appeals loudly to the heart of the man of feeling; their abasement appeals still...

"When the mechanical artist places his hand on the formless block, to give it a form according to his intention, he has not any scrup...

Disciplines delineate their territory by cutting through the common fabric of language and thought. They thereby draw a line of partition be...