Big Jelly

The Future is now. We are living it everyday.

The name “Big Jelly” is taken from a story by Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker about big ideas brought about by technoculture. It is both the brain and the technology the the brain produces.

Perhaps the defining characteristic of “Big Jelly” is unusual collaborations, fusions, juxtapositions. It means the bringing together of forces that do not usually mix to form something new, resistant to label, squishy. This union makes ripples that have implications on other areas of culture that, before networked technologies, might not have cared or even realized. Big Jelly is the center of this outward expansion, the brain controlled and shaped by external technocultural forces. Big Jelly is a collaboration about this unique time we find ourselves in, between what we were before the network, what we bring with us into the network, and the funkiness that will become as a result.

Big Jelly publishes articles, essays, notes, and reviews about technoculture, science fiction, and futurism. Have an idea? Want to contribute? Submit to our group or send us an idea.