Arts + Culture

Yahia Lababidi|Essays

‘The museum-going cannibal:’ On Francis Bacon

On the heels of this month’s Louvre heist, a poet reflects on his own hellish — and oddly heartening — encounter at a famed museum.

Education

The Editors|Books

Your October reading list: The Design of Horror | The Horror of Design

A classic ghost story wrought with a faulty foundation. Bodies untamed and unethically built. Collapse through designs unfurled or too tightly wound. A meditation on the meaning of truly blank space.

AI Observer

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson|Analysis

Dancing with AI: how next-gen game designers are taking the lead

Step into Jonah King’s queer sci-fi virtual reality game Honey Fungus, and you’re immediately transported to a world that could only exist through the marriage of human imagination and machine learning. Floating through a viscous digital landscape, you encounter creatures that defy biological classification: lush beings that are part human torso, part exotic mushroom, with … Continued