Lesens- und Sehenswertes aus dem Netz: Kalenderwoche 50, 2015.
- The Atlantic: Erste Konzepte für Ta-Nehisi Coates‘ Black Panther.
- Nerdwriter analysiert den Preis von Träumen in Neil Gaimans Sandman.
- The New York Review of Books: Tim Parks über die Freiheit der Schriftstellenden.
- Electric Literature nähert sich dem Wahnsinn von Guantanamo mit Alice in Wonderland. „For me, it is to understand ‘nonsense’ not as children’s fantasy but as a riptide in the human mind, which drags us further off course the more violent or conceited or certain we are. It is to articulate what is so wrongheaded in Gitmo—to acknowledge men serving thirteen years of sentence before any verdict“.
- Popular Science über die Kosten zerstörter Todessterne. (Via Nerdcore)
- David Ehrlich: 25 Filme in 2015 – ein Videocountdown.
- Via Vulture: David „Doctor Who“ Tennant erklärt die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie im Schnelldurchlauf.
- Outlook: „Things that can and cannot be said“ – John Cusack und Arundhati Roy im lesenswerten Gespräch, auf dem Weg zu einer Konversation mit Ed Snowden und Pentagon-Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: „What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? […] What of our failure to replace the idea of flags and countries with a less lethal Object of Love? Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love. So the question is, what shall we love?“