SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE: Here is an amazing video–the cheap, reductive slogan would be, “Blade Runner via the black Atlantic.” It’s an android auction as scored by the Fugees. It’s smart and hard and everything you, as a devotee of Octavia Butler and Kanye West, might’ve hoped for… only more. I mean for real, are you kidding me–if you think about how to convince other people of your personhood, and if you worry that no one will listen when you try to make futures which know the past without loving it or assuming it … this is for you. It bends gender and genre.

But for real, it’s just phenomenal. Metropolis plus racial and sexual politics plus incredible angular dancing plus… look, why are you still here? Go to the YouTube link, before I beat you with a bat.