Moon Face

Short Story

'Moon Face' is a short sci-fi story following a woman reeling from a recent loss who visits a doctor and is told that her suffering stems from a “shared fantasy” cut short during the infatuation phase of her past relationship. Instead of medication, she is prescribed an experimental tool: RealityBend, an AI image generator meant to reconstruct memories realistically enough to dismantle idealisation. As she feeds the software prose-like prompts of key moments, the images it returns grow increasingly haunting, exposing the relationship’s hidden violence and decay.

Artificiality and Emotions: Beyond the Flesh

Article

What distinguishes “authentic” desire from artificially mediated desire? In “Artificiality and Emotions: Beyond the Flesh,” Morgane Billuart revisits Klossowski’s “living currency” to argue that contemporary markets do not repress desire so much as they reorganize it through images and interfaces. Where mid-century imaginaries placed the body at the center of exchange, Billuart tracks a migration of erotic and affective value into a semio-capitalist circuit of NPCs, sex dolls, AI girlfriends, and screen-mediated fantasies, asking whether we have entered an artificial emotional economy and what conceptual tools make it legible.

Do not water me, I’m artificial

Article

Do not water me, I’m artificial reflects on the growing presence of artificial plants and their place within contemporary life. Through personal narrative and cultural analysis, it considers what our attraction to fake flora reveals about our relationship to care, beauty, and permanence. Moving from domestic interiors to digital landscapes, the text explores how imitation becomes both a comfort and a symptom of distance from the natural world. Drawing on ecological thought and theories of simulation, it traces how artificial nature can soothe, deceive, and mirror our desire for control. Could our acceptance of these replicas reveal not only a loss of intimacy with the living, but also a quiet adaptation to a world increasingly shaped by design and illusion?

Getting Blood Out of A Stone

Short story

A young woman, lost in the aftermath of separation, turns to the Glow Up Face Mask, which awakens not beauty but luminous cracks where grief has long been lodged. In a brutal dance of pressure and release, she forces out the glowing wounds, blood, and radiance mingling like a purge of all that rotted within. Raw and hollow yet touched by a quiet, yielding calm, she steps into the moonlight where, for the first time in months, a genuine smile takes shape.

Machine Learning and Meme-making: The Prerequisites of Generating Humor" for the Critical Meme Reader III

Article

The Manufacture of Humor: Memes and Machine Learning explores what happens when machine learning collides with meme culture. Reviewing technical approaches from neural networks to perplexity-based models, the article highlights both the surprising successes and troubling biases of AI-generated humor. Could memes become a testing ground for the boundaries between human creativity and machinic imitation?

Virtuality and Aesthetics, An Evening in the Void Club

Article

This text ponders the following question: What draws us into virtual worlds? The realism of their graphics, or the imaginative space left by their imperfections? This text explores how platforms from Zork to VR Chat, Second Life, and Meta show that absence, gaps, and symbolic signs often engage us more deeply than high-definition simulations. As we scroll, these digital landscapes invite projection, creativity, and freedom, allowing users to become both actors and authors of their own narratives.

Cranberry Recipe

Short Story

Cranberryjuice is an action-based artist collective aimed at raising awareness about underrepresented subjects connected to care practices and sexual health.‘By merging artists and researchers with multiple experiences, bodies, struggles, and approaches, we strive to create an intersectional platform where the gap between art and activism, the personal and collective, and the public and private is blurred.’

Breed, Bread, Breath

Short Story

What does it mean to search for belief when raised without baptism or religious education, guided instead by curiosity, jealousy, and borrowed mantras? This short story traces a journey through encounters with churches, testimonies, and symbols, where the absence of faith becomes as formative as its presence.

The Hidden Implications Behind the Ideology of Passive Income

Article

A text that explores the rise of passive income dreams such as drop-shipping, e-commerce, affiliate marketing, and digital products, promoted as quick paths to financial freedom. While they can create independence and extra earnings, such practices also raise concerns about labor exploitation, sustainability, and ethics, since hidden costs remain.