Author Archives: marktaylor

Now, Voyagers

Forty years after they left Earth, the Voyager spacecraft escape the effects of the sun and speed away into the universe alone.

In which a worldwide social media site called The Platform becomes conscious, begins experimenting on its users and wonders about its purpose.

Surfacing a long-buried, black and white memory of Japanese horror and dread on late night TV.

Yet more proof we live in a post-fact world — or my worldview is terribly out of date.

The buzzword is privatization. How turning imprisoned people into profit implicates us all.

Three art shows draw back the curtain on the real and the imagined.

News of punk rock drifts over airwaves, waking the sleeper.

What is “real” in the world of Beyonce’s Lemonade?