Art from my substack The Intrinsic Perspective is by Alexander Naughton
Fiction
Having spent my early life selling books in a bookstore, I was unable to avoid getting bit by the writing bug. My fiction has won awards like the Writer's Digest literary short story competition, and my nonfiction has been selected as notable by the Best American Essays series. In 2017 I was chosen as a NYC Emerging Writers Fellow for my short stories.The Revelations, my debut novel, came out from Overlook Press / Abrams Books in April of 2021. It is the most important thing I've ever done. Please consider either ordering it from a local bookseller or Amazon.
Having spent my early life selling books in a bookstore, I was unable to avoid getting bit by the writing bug. My fiction has won awards like the Writer's Digest literary short story competition, and my nonfiction has been selected as notable by the Best American Essays series. In 2017 I was chosen as a NYC Emerging Writers Fellow for my short stories.The Revelations, my debut novel, came out from Overlook Press / Abrams Books in April of 2021. It is the most important thing I've ever done. Please consider either ordering it from a local bookseller or Amazon.
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Essays
My substack, The Intrinsic Perspective, is now the main outlet for my writing. Below, I've collected my essays; unless otherwise specified, they are published onThe Intrinsic Perspective.
My substack, The Intrinsic Perspective, is now the main outlet for my writing. Below, I've collected my essays; unless otherwise specified, they are published onThe Intrinsic Perspective.
Futurism, technology, progress, artificial intelligence
- How to prevent the coming inhuman future
- Futurists have their heads in the clouds
- The 2050 Project
- Why we stopped making Einsteins
- AI makes animists of us all
- NASA and SpaceX are establishing the first Martian city by 2030
- Big Tech is replacing human artists with AI
- Billionaires have polarized space exploration
- Bitcoin as a Hyperobject
- Superintelligence is impossible
- The semantic apocalypse
- We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI
- Superintelligence faces a no-win scenario
Science
- How the strangeness of our dreams reveals their true purpose cover story of the New Scientist
- Now that scientists can manipulate dream content, advertisers want in
- Who invented the idea of memes?
- Why do most popular science books suck?
- Is there a Scientific Case for Literature? at Salon
- The new UFO craze and the failures of our public intellectuals
- Publish and perish
- Are animals more conscious than we are?
Literature, art, writing
- The future of literature is video games
- Writing for outlets isn't worth it anymore
- Literary exorcisms
- What killed the writer Mark Baumer?
- How the MFA swallowed literature
- Why Murder Mysteries are a Lot Like Science at Crime Reads
- How to get 2,000 Substack subscribers in six months
- Enter the Supersensorium: the neuroscientific case for art in the age of Netflix in The Baffler
- Fiction in the Age of Screens in The New Atlantis, included as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2017
- City on Fire Proves How Culturally Dominant Television Has Become in The Atlantic
- How to make art that lasts 1,000 years
Personal, ethical, political
- Corporations vs. the demarcation problem
- Baldwin in Brahman
- CGI did, in fact, ruin movies
- On being the subject of a media cycle
- Forbes 30 Under 30 is an awkward ego-fest
- The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in an indie Bookstore at Lit Hub
- Culture is downstream of money
- We can't imagine an "end of history" in sci-fi anymore
Fiction
- Ars memorativa: A fictional tale of the lost art of memory
- Blackout in the Brain Lab in Nautilus (an excerpt from The Revelations).
- Of Monkeys and Monsters in 3:AM Magazine (an excerpt from The Revelations)
- Higher Education in Arts & Letters