Dr Implausible

@drimplausible.com

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Digital emigre, researcher standing at the intersection of arts, tech, and pop culture. Got the PhD studying Innovation and the Arts, talk about it sometimes on the Implausipod podcast. Blog over at implausi.blog. I'm consistently me other places too.

Chureito Pagoda with Mt Fuji in the background against a blue sky

A large man with a white beard holds a KFC bucket on his shoulder while in the streets of Shinjuku Tokyo

A stack of boxed DVD sets for the TV series of the Six Million Dollar Man, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, as well as Bladerunner2049 and the book Post-Scarcity Anarchism

Cover to Black Pill, a 2024 book by Elle Reeve

A hand holding Robertson Davies' Fifth Business with a campfire, tent, and Rocky Mountains in the background

The poster for the 1995 movie "Sudden Death" starring Jean Claude Van Damme.

Box art of the Yoroni Kitsune limited edition from ParabellumGames for Conquest miniatures game

A page from the 1982 Sears Catalog showing the Sears Video Arcade System (a copy of the Atari 2600 VCS) retailing for $149.99 and video game titles like Asteroids and Donkey Kong retailing for $27.99 to $34.99.

($495.55, $92.55, and $115.70 , respectively in 2025 pricing adjusted for inflation).

Screenshot from The Matrix (1999) showing the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar, from L to R: Epoch, Switch, Tank, Mouse, and Dozer, with Mouse looking at a monitor.

A gif showing Omar Little (a character from the HBO series "The Wire" played by Michael K Williams") turning to his side and saying "A man got to have a code."

Comic panel of Deadpool saying "Shhh. my common sense is tingling" in a word bubble

Movie poster for Flow (2024) showing a black cat with yellow eyes looking at the viewer with some jungle and ruins in the background

A picture of the cast of Welcome Back Kotter which ran from 1975-79. They do not look like teenagers.

Movie poster for Ivan Reitman's "Dave" (1993), showing a man in casual wear clothing standing in front of what appears to be the White House in the USA

Sam Kinison as Professor Terguson in Back to School (1986)

"It's still real to me" Dave Willis, 2005

Cover of the paperback copy of The Shadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe (1980), showing a man in a black hooded cloak and facemask holding a two-handed sword point-down in front of him.

cover of Byung-Chul Han's Non-things (2021)

An image showing two humanoid figures covered in muck: the zombie dubbed "Tarman" from the movie Return of the Living Dead on the left and the singer Sarah McLachlan from the music video for "Into the Fire" on the right.

A row of enlargers or something set up against a wall in a darkroom.

A movie ticket stub to Die Hard

cover of Benjamin Noys (2014) Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism in the foreground, with a daytime image of the Las Vegas strip showing the Sphere, the LINQ Ferris wheel, the Eiffel Tower and the Bellagio fountains.

Photo credited to: Justin Sullivan via Getty Images, shows a picture of a bus stop billboard with an advertisement for the AI company Artisan with a woman's face and the text "Artisans Won't Complain about Work-Life Balance" and "The Era of AI Employees is Here" written on it. Beside the bus stop is a person sitting on the curb with the streets of San Francisco in the background.

Parody Video showing a scene from American Psycho where Patrick Bateman shows off a Bored Ape NFT but his colleague counters with a picture of a banana duct taped to a wall

Cover of Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism (2014) by Benjamin Noys. Green book with a ref stock ticker arrow pointed up on the bottom half of the cover

Evel Knievel igniting the engines on the SkyCycle X-2 (rocket) pointed at an angle on a ramp, during the Snake River Canyon jump, 1974.

Froghemoth, Erol Otus, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, (1980). A giant frog with tentacles instead of forelimbs and eyes on stalks.

Dolores, in the HBO series /Westworld/ asks a person off camera "Have you every questioned the nature of your reality?"

Jesus riding on a velociraptor

A scene from the music video for "Magical Mysteries" by the Thrilla Killa Klownz with Ass Dan holding up two fingers while next to Jay2Fresh, with the lyrics "Here's just a list of some stuff" in a caption above them. (SNL Parody)