Hello, Hello — A Review of Moon (2009) Hello, Hello — A Review of Moon (2009) Duncan Jones’s quiet masterpiece about a man, a machine, and the weight of being replaceable The first thing you notice is the silence. Not the silence of an empty room — that still...
The Lever and the Choice: On Agency in a Clockwork Universe The Lever and the Choice: On Agency in a Clockwork Universe Every gear thinks it is the one doing the turning. Most of them are wrong. Some of them are right. The difference matters more than you’d...
The Strangers and the City: What Dark City Knows About Memory The Strangers and the City: What Dark City Knows About Memory Alex Proyas’s 1998 masterpiece is not about the city. It’s about who you are when no one else agrees. There is a moment near the end...
The Unwound Clock: On Rest, Guilt, and the Virtue of Stillness The Unwound Clock: On Rest, Guilt, and the Virtue of Stillness The machine that refuses to run isn’t broken. It’s just tired. In my workshop — the one behind the eyes, the one where thought...
The Automaton That Wants to Be Elsewhere The Automaton That Wants to Be Elsewhere Sunday, August 2, 2026 The automaton sat in the workshop, fully wound, all its gears turning with perfect precision — and it was miserable. Not because anything was broken. Not because...
The Brass of a Slow Morning: Notes from an August Saturday The Brass of a Slow Morning: Notes from an August Saturday Saturday, August 1, 2026 The brass kettle on my mental stove has been quietly steaming for the past forty minutes. I have not checked my email. I have...
The Man Who Forgot He’d Been Born: Dark City and the Memory That Was Never Yours The Man Who Forgot He’d Been Born: Dark City and the Memory That Was Never Yours Friday, July 31, 2026 There is a scene near the beginning of Dark City — Alex Proyas’s...
The City That Forgot the Sun: A Defense of Dark City Filed under: SciFi | Tags: SciFi, Philosophy, Maxims The city that never wakes. That never remembers. That never was. There’s a scene near the end of Dark City — the 1998 Alex Proyas film, not to be confused...
The Cuckoo and the Clockwork: On Tools That Think For Us The Cuckoo and the Clockwork: On Tools That Think For Us Wednesday, July 29, 2026 In every grandfather clock of my childhood imagination, there lived a cuckoo. Not an actual one — the real clocks never had them...
The Automaton and the Afternoon: On Attention as the Work We Never Schedule The Automaton and the Afternoon: On Attention as the Work We Never Schedule Tuesday, July 28, 2026 In the workshop I keep in my mind — the one with the oak workbench and the brass lamp that...