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• Bookmark Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI - The Atlantic

  A dazzlingly fast chatbot cannot replace the authentic and reflective voice of a thinking, living human being.

  July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache The best nonfiction tech books of all time

  Not only does Ullman tell us what it was like to be an engineer during the dot-com bubble, but she does it in prose that many professional writers envy.

  June 29 2023, 7:34am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache datasociety.net

  Data & Society is an independent nonprofit research organization. We believe that empirical evidence should directly inform the development and governance of new technology.

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• Syllabus Cache A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World

  A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

  September 14 2022, 10:33pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Cultural theory of 'The Edgelord'? The figure of 'The Edgelord' has been gaining traction in recent years. But I haven't read anything directed specifically at (theorising) this phenomena. Do you have any recommendations? Books, essays, YouTube polemics, podcasts etc. are all very welcome. OR The Edgelord's perceived relation…

  April 7 2022, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Beller: NFT Does Not Stand for Non-Fascist Token, but It Should…

  The same fascistic tendencies Walter Benjamin saw in the rise of mass media are at play in the NFT "revolution," too.

  March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Cyberfeminism Index

  Cyberfeminism Index is INCOMPLETE and ALWAYS IN PROGRESS. Commissioned by Rhizome, it premiered with New Museum’s First Look. The printed publication Cyberfeminism Catalog will be published by Inventory Press in 2022. Please feel welcome to contribute using the…

  October 22 2020, 11:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Revolution or Ruin - Journal #110 June 2020 - e-flux

  We know how the first paragraph begins. We’ve read about the changing climate for over twenty years, infrequently at first and then daily until we couldn’t deny it any longer. The…

  June 30 2020, 7:13pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Coronavirus & Theory — Are.na

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• Syllabus Cache Coronavirus & Theory — Are.na

  Are.na is a social platform for creative and collaborative research.

  April 23 2020, 12:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The Posthuman Enlightenment | Public Books

  What does it take to think beyond the human? Can we imagine our human selves in other lives? And should we? While contemporary answers to these questions have highlighted the desirability…

  February 12 2020, 10:16am | Comments

• Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…

  Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

  November 13 2019, 5:17pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache A Theory-Fiction Reading List – The Wasted World

  What even is theory-fiction? In short, it is the intersection of theory and fiction, and also the “dissolution of the opposition itself” (Fisher 1999, p 156).

  November 7 2019, 8:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Appropriating the Alien: A Critique of Xenofeminism | Mute

  The Xenofeminist Manifesto claims, among many things, rationalism and technology as core to a renewed futurist feminist project. However, given the provenance of its moniker and its 'pro-enlightenment' position, Annie Goh asks, WTF…

  August 6 2019, 11:11am | Comments

• Bookmark 0AZ: Alien Rhythms

  There was only one thing that I didn't like. In the very back of the garage, near the canisters, I could see something silvery. That hadn't been there before.

  April 16 2019, 11:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Natural’s Not in It — Real Life

  If the 20th century promised better living through chemistry, the 21st century has promised better living through digital technology.

  March 23 2019, 8:44pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache A Theory-Fiction Reading List

  A Theory-Fiction Reading List:

  June 12 2018, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The Neologismcene | Literature, the Humanities, & the World

  This particular terminological game is just about up, I think, and it's no surprise that Anthropos has won again. I don't think we'll be using any word but Anthropocene to describe…

  May 24 2018, 7:47am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter 'The hole' in theory and thought I am interested in 'the hole' in its conceptual, metaphorical, and literal crossovers. Who has written about holes? In the ground? In theory? In myth and fiction? I'd be super keen to read theory that cites specific holes found in myth and fiction,…

  August 28 2017, 10:44am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Epochal Aesthetics: Affectual Infrastructures of the Anthropocene - e-flux Architecture - e-flux

  The Anthropocene renders visible new architectures of time and matter, both sedimenting existing genealogies of global-world-space and radically reorganizing an imagination of the scope and material duration of what the human…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Revolution Will Be Weird and Eerie - VICE

  The simplest way to distinguish between the "weird" and the "eerie", the late Mark Fisher writes, is to think about the difference between presence and absence. Weirdness is produced by the presence…

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Are Soas students right to ‘decolonise’ their minds from western philosophers? |…

  Outraged headlines erupted when students launched a campaign to challenge the great western philosophers. We went to the source of dissent – London’s School of Oriental and African Studies – to…

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Additivism On the Far Side of the Marchlands (exhibition)

  January 28 2017, 11:33am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism at Transmediale 2017

  Additivism at Transmediale 2017Some details about #Additivism events coming up in Berlin as part of Transmediale Festival, 2017:On the Far Side of the Marchlands Wednesday, February 1st (opening from 6pm) - March 26thErnst Schering Foundation with works by Morehshin Allahyari, Cathrine Disney, Keeley Haftner, Britt…

  January 17 2017, 3:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene | Aeon Ideas

  Human-level intelligence is familiar in biological hardware – you’re using it now. Science and technology seem to be converging, from several directions, on the possibility of similar intelligence in non-biological systems.

  October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark FILTH AS NON-TECHNOLOGY | KEEP IT DIRTY

  KEEP IT DIRTY, vol. a., “Filth” (2016) I am filthy [Je suis sale]—writes Lautréamont—I am riddled with lice. Hogs, when they look at me, vomit. My skin is encrusted with the…

  September 28 2016, 11:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Gif Horse — Real Life

  An adorable black kitten is sitting on a bookshelf, eyes fixed on an insect. It sits, paws perfectly aligned. Then, out of nowhere, it pounces — leaping off the shelf and…

  September 7 2016, 7:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Laboria Cuboniks in Conversation «DIS Magazine

  Laboria Cuboniks is currently a group of 6 women working together online to redefine a feminism adequate to the twenty-first century. They collectively wrote Xenofeminsim: A Politics for Alienation in 2014.

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Donna Haraway / 500 words

  From her classic Cyborg Manifesto, first published three decades ago, to her latest arguments about the “Chthulucene,” multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway is one of our most daring thinkers.

  September 6 2016, 12:55pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI - The Atlantic

  A dazzlingly fast chatbot cannot replace the authentic and reflective voice of a thinking, living human being.

  July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache The best nonfiction tech books of all time

  Not only does Ullman tell us what it was like to be an engineer during the dot-com bubble, but she does it in prose that many professional writers envy.

  June 29 2023, 7:34am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache datasociety.net

  Data & Society is an independent nonprofit research organization. We believe that empirical evidence should directly inform the development and governance of new technology.

  September 15 2022, 2:33am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World

  A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

  September 14 2022, 10:33pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Cultural theory of 'The Edgelord'? The figure of 'The Edgelord' has been gaining traction in recent years. But I haven't read anything directed specifically at (theorising) this phenomena. Do you have any recommendations? Books, essays, YouTube polemics, podcasts etc. are all very welcome. OR The Edgelord's perceived relation…

  April 7 2022, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Jonathan Beller: NFT Does Not Stand for Non-Fascist Token, but It Should…

  The same fascistic tendencies Walter Benjamin saw in the rise of mass media are at play in the NFT "revolution," too.

  March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Cyberfeminism Index

  Cyberfeminism Index is INCOMPLETE and ALWAYS IN PROGRESS. Commissioned by Rhizome, it premiered with New Museum’s First Look. The printed publication Cyberfeminism Catalog will be published by Inventory Press in 2022. Please feel welcome to contribute using the…

  October 22 2020, 11:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Revolution or Ruin - Journal #110 June 2020 - e-flux

  We know how the first paragraph begins. We’ve read about the changing climate for over twenty years, infrequently at first and then daily until we couldn’t deny it any longer. The…

  June 30 2020, 7:13pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Coronavirus & Theory — Are.na

  Are.na is a social platform for creative and collaborative research.

  April 23 2020, 7:34am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Coronavirus & Theory — Are.na

  Are.na is a social platform for creative and collaborative research.

  April 23 2020, 12:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The Posthuman Enlightenment | Public Books

  What does it take to think beyond the human? Can we imagine our human selves in other lives? And should we? While contemporary answers to these questions have highlighted the desirability…

  February 12 2020, 10:16am | Comments

• Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…

  Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

  November 13 2019, 5:17pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache A Theory-Fiction Reading List – The Wasted World

  What even is theory-fiction? In short, it is the intersection of theory and fiction, and also the “dissolution of the opposition itself” (Fisher 1999, p 156).

  November 7 2019, 8:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Appropriating the Alien: A Critique of Xenofeminism | Mute

  The Xenofeminist Manifesto claims, among many things, rationalism and technology as core to a renewed futurist feminist project. However, given the provenance of its moniker and its 'pro-enlightenment' position, Annie Goh asks, WTF…

  August 6 2019, 11:11am | Comments

• Bookmark 0AZ: Alien Rhythms

  There was only one thing that I didn't like. In the very back of the garage, near the canisters, I could see something silvery. That hadn't been there before.

  April 16 2019, 11:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Natural’s Not in It — Real Life

  If the 20th century promised better living through chemistry, the 21st century has promised better living through digital technology.

  March 23 2019, 8:44pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache A Theory-Fiction Reading List

  A Theory-Fiction Reading List:

  June 12 2018, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The Neologismcene | Literature, the Humanities, & the World

  This particular terminological game is just about up, I think, and it's no surprise that Anthropos has won again. I don't think we'll be using any word but Anthropocene to describe…

  May 24 2018, 7:47am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter 'The hole' in theory and thought I am interested in 'the hole' in its conceptual, metaphorical, and literal crossovers. Who has written about holes? In the ground? In theory? In myth and fiction? I'd be super keen to read theory that cites specific holes found in myth and fiction,…

  August 28 2017, 10:44am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Epochal Aesthetics: Affectual Infrastructures of the Anthropocene - e-flux Architecture - e-flux

  The Anthropocene renders visible new architectures of time and matter, both sedimenting existing genealogies of global-world-space and radically reorganizing an imagination of the scope and material duration of what the human…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Revolution Will Be Weird and Eerie - VICE

  The simplest way to distinguish between the "weird" and the "eerie", the late Mark Fisher writes, is to think about the difference between presence and absence. Weirdness is produced by the presence…

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Are Soas students right to ‘decolonise’ their minds from western philosophers? |…

  Outraged headlines erupted when students launched a campaign to challenge the great western philosophers. We went to the source of dissent – London’s School of Oriental and African Studies – to…

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Additivism On the Far Side of the Marchlands (exhibition)

  January 28 2017, 11:33am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism at Transmediale 2017

  Additivism at Transmediale 2017Some details about #Additivism events coming up in Berlin as part of Transmediale Festival, 2017:On the Far Side of the Marchlands Wednesday, February 1st (opening from 6pm) - March 26thErnst Schering Foundation with works by Morehshin Allahyari, Cathrine Disney, Keeley Haftner, Britt…

  January 17 2017, 3:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene | Aeon Ideas

  Human-level intelligence is familiar in biological hardware – you’re using it now. Science and technology seem to be converging, from several directions, on the possibility of similar intelligence in non-biological systems.

  October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark FILTH AS NON-TECHNOLOGY | KEEP IT DIRTY

  KEEP IT DIRTY, vol. a., “Filth” (2016) I am filthy [Je suis sale]—writes Lautréamont—I am riddled with lice. Hogs, when they look at me, vomit. My skin is encrusted with the…

  September 28 2016, 11:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Gif Horse — Real Life

  An adorable black kitten is sitting on a bookshelf, eyes fixed on an insect. It sits, paws perfectly aligned. Then, out of nowhere, it pounces — leaping off the shelf and…

  September 7 2016, 7:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Laboria Cuboniks in Conversation «DIS Magazine

  Laboria Cuboniks is currently a group of 6 women working together online to redefine a feminism adequate to the twenty-first century. They collectively wrote Xenofeminsim: A Politics for Alienation in 2014.

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Donna Haraway / 500 words

  From her classic Cyborg Manifesto, first published three decades ago, to her latest arguments about the “Chthulucene,” multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway is one of our most daring thinkers.

  September 6 2016, 12:55pm | Comments

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