THOUGHTS | Sean E. Kelly

An Open Letter to the Motion Picture Industry (re: Tolkien)

Dear Motion Picture Industry, Last night, whilst driving home from Cleveland, having watched my Cavaliers collapse late in the fourth...

Transhumanism With Tolkien

Many authors far greater than I have pointed to the inimitable J.R.R. Tolkien as their primary inspiration for taking up creative...

Altered Carbon is Deathist Propaganda

I spent a blustery Leap Day binge-watching the new season of Altered Carbon on Netflix. To be honest, I was lukewarm going in, as the...

Breaking Up With Nature

All this time, we’ve had it drilled into our heads that we have to live in harmony with nature. But nature is brutality. Nature is...

The Blood-Drenched Algorithm

Back in September, I watched a film on Netflix called In the Shadow of the Moon. The premise is—spoiler alert—that a terrorist attack...