Philosopher, Researcher, and Architect of the Xeo Woolfe universe. Exploring the frontiers of mind, narrative, and information.
High-resolution cinema stills, speculative futures, cyberpunk, gothic, and fine-art series.
The alluring heroines of pulp covers, serials and space-age cinema, each set in a real era and genre from NeuraScene's ontology. Three new images a day.
Space princesses, rocket pilots and lady scientists from the silent serials to the Atomic Age, each set in a real era and genre from NeuraScene's ontology and made in that genre's own medium. Three new images a day.
A daily showcase of NeuraScene's ontology: every era, every genre of photography, film and art, each image made with the cameras, film stocks and artistic media that genre really used. Three new images a day.
High tech and low life: rain-slick neon streets, hackers, street samurai and corporate towers, from 80s tech-noir to now, each set in a real era and genre from NeuraScene's ontology.
Science fiction in which information itself is the frontier: alien scripts, signals surfacing from noise, loops, simulations and minds made of data, in ordinary, closely observed worlds. Drawn from Bruce R. Long's Informationist SF theory (University of Sydney MPhil, 2010 https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/5838 ) and the infopunk genres of NeuraScene's ontology, from Alphaville and Stalker to Arrival, Annihilation, Source Code and Skyline.
Candlelit castles, haunted manors, moonlit graveyards and the people who walk them: gothic romance, horror and mystery from the Victorian era to now, each set in a real era and genre from NeuraScene's ontology.
Original artworks in every movement and medium of NeuraScene's ontology, from Victorian illustration to digital art, each made with the materials and techniques its movement really used.
Stills from films that never were: every era and genre of cinema in NeuraScene's ontology, each shot with the cameras, lenses and film stocks its makers really used.
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Long-form writing across psychology, philosophy, film criticism, fiction, and studio news.
Or: Why the strong AI might decide it should kill us with kindness and be right about that. ( Original article: Nov 3, 2023 ) There is no shortage of postulates and hypotheses about why artificial general intelligence…
Having discussed how prematurely-born Isaac Newton's genius may have come about due to epigenetic switching in utero (engaging with largely known science and charted neuroscientific territory) I moved on to a discussion…
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If you’ve spent any time playing with AI image generators, you know the frustration. You ask for a few variations of a concept—maybe a batch of funny fake products, or some isolated game assets—and what does the AI do?…
NotebookLM went wild with some of my PhD research material. I should point out that I would make a terrible marriage counsellor, as I have an exceedingly dim view of contractual and religious marriage in general. It…
The chapters you have seen here were all originally produced in 2004 and 2005. None of the fiction I write is ChatGPT or LLM generated. None of it. 0% Zip. Given the prevalence of large language model and machine…
Acculturative stress is a well-known yet underestimated stressor that can be caused by misinformation. Acculturative stressors are stressors that people are exposed to when they enter unfamiliar social and cultural…
Why dialogue is the weakest evidence of who a character is, and how great scripts triangulate the rest. The Self-Report Trap on the Page When a screenplay struggles to make a protagonist feel three-dimensional, the…
Personality shapes emotion either by choosing the room or by reacting to it. Screenwriters must know which mechanism they are staging. When a narrative introduces a protagonist, it faces an immediate structural choice:…
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A nexus of disparate disciplines, converging into a singular pursuit of knowledge, science fiction, and strategic communication.
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Epic Informationist Science Fiction. Explore the universe.
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Immerse yourself in the auditory landscape of the Xeo Woolfe universe. Experience the official music album from the fictional band Xeo and The Portals, alongside regular video content.
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Explore the visual semantics of high-fidelity marketing. From noir cinema to neon-soaked futurism, Arcanamatic scripts the reality of brand narrative.
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Decoding the cognitive architecture of the modern observer. Research into schema therapy and psychometrics provides the psychological engine for all Informationist enterprises.
