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Moby Makes Sense of Destroyed Media

Moby has been making music across media and genre for over three decades now. Which means he’s watched genres bleed into each other, technology kill the music industry as we knew it, the internet rebuild the music industry as we’ll know it, and how a conscientious artist must work if s/he’s going to survive the [...]

Anonymous Clowns Crooked Cybersecurity Loudmouths. So Who’s Next?

I’ve been following the sometimes merry digital pranksters of Anonymous for awhile now. But I was stoked when my AlterNet editor Jan Frel asked me to break down their genius undressing of Aaron Barr’s so-called cybersecurity outfit HBGary Federal and, by association, everyone from the Chamber of Commerce and powerhouse law firm Hunton & Williams [...]

Grant Morrison’s Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne Is a Masterful Time-Wipe

No one mashes science, philosophy and superheroes as well as Grant Morrison. And his years-long run on Batman, the most iconic human superhero of all time, is an object lesson in how to make smart comics sell like cakes. So of course I reviewed Morrison’s Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne hardcover for Wired. It’s [...]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Chronicles Life During Terrorized Cartoon Wartime

Here’s what’s weird.

One of pop culture’s most accessible entry points for understanding our last decade of War on Terror is a presumable kids’ cartoon from George Lucas’ Star Wars universe.

But whether you like it or not, and whether you’re young or you’re old, The Clone Wars‘ eye-popping CGI animated series is seriously infested with [...]

Geek The Beatles: John Lennon Assassination Simulations (Abridged)

It wasn’t easy writing this piece, because the reality of John Lennon’s assassination is a heavier load than hyperreality of his simulations. After all, hyperreality’s job is to suck the bleeding life out of reality. Which is why simulations of John Lennon’s assassinations are proliferating across media, from films to comics to tabloid TV and [...]