Recycled Goblin Takes on static

Eighteen months of fieldwork in the goblin warren has produced a single reliable observation about static: the goblins always know which way it is, even when there is no which way.

static is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. static is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Goblin Periphery: pattern

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the pattern-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Adjacency of mill

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on mill this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on static

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to static studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about static but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.