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Cyborg Memoirs Revival
Greetings my beloved denizen readers of the net, In the social media time sphere, it’s been a million years since you last heard from me here, but in regular ole human being time, I’ve been lining up a roster of projects for completion.…
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We might have to join the dead, you know
Late January 2023 finds me pulling threads on militarism, militancy, discipline, Mars, and related martial topics along my usual introspective and media-critical prongs of sci-fi, magic, and survivor memoir. Topics covered, tracks sampled, and side quest links are below. Enjoy and thank you…
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A long durational constant
Considering the fruits of the past ten years, from the midst of a transiting Mars in Gemini x Mercury in Capricorn retrograde For 2023 I’m going to post my newsletters here on my own URL before crossposting them to my Substack and Patreon…
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“Speculative Writing” with Blue Stoop
Back in February 21st of 2022 this year, I did a one-hour workshop for Blue Stoop, an interesting Philadelphia literary organization that has been growing consistent in soliciting the local authorship (if u will) to participate in doing paid workshops for their audience.…
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Double Layer Light Compression
Greetings friends :0} It’s a lovely early autumn’s day here in Philly and I’ve got a long listen for you today. A typical mashup of discussion, field recordings, and an original piece of climate survivor fiction—a new All That’s Left story—from yours truly.…
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Monk reviews Don’t Look Up
Originally written for cinéSPEAK journal as No Imagination: A Working Class Sci-fi Writer’s Read of Don’t Look Up **Spoilers Alert** During the first great plague of the 21st century, Hollywood took to producing Don’t Look Up, an engrossing film about a comet striking…
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A cyborg’s Recap Leaving Jupiter in Aquarius
What you’re reading is a port from my subscription services, patreon, and substack where i crosspost the free content. I post at a frequency between monthly and seasonally lately, and not all of it is posted here by a long shot, so I…
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“Desire Practice for Cyborgs” with Common Field 2021
[There was once a Vimeo video here, which was deleted when Common Field shut itself down. If I can retrieve the video, it will return. -3/2/25] For those who can’t get enough of my Desire Practice offering, here’s a recording of the one…
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Cyborg Memoirs Fan Club is Here
“Sci-fi magic smut survivor memoir.”“Desire Hope Despair.”“Not everybody is good at their body.”“You must forge yourself into a weapon.”“There will be no new colony.” Cyborg Memoirs first existed as the personal website of me, Magus Monk bka M. Téllez fka number18, back on…
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Here Comes The Fall ’21 ☿ Intensive
Announcing the 2021 FALL MERCURY INTENSIVEOCT 4 – NOV 10, Mondays & Wednesdays, 7-9pm ESTapplications close friday, oct 1, 10pm EST Storytelling critique focused. Sci-fi, fantasy, magic, smut welcome. De-centering MFAs, career path academics, or those currently connected to/embedded in institutional resources. Priority…
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Recap on a Mercury Monastery
By all expressed accounts, the Mercury Intensive, my free, impromptu, experimental June-long writing and storytelling workshop, went well. If you recall, I decided I would run my own workshop after getting yet another rejection from a genre writing workshop I had been hoping…
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Monk Reviews Blue-Collar Conservatism by Timothy J. Lombardo
The postwar United States has experienced many forms of populist politics, none more consequential than that of the blue-collar white ethnics who brought figures like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump to the White House. Blue-Collar Conservatism traces the rise of this little-understood, easily…
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