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April 26 2021, 8:48am | Comments
Syllabus Cache RESOURCE PORTAL ON ANTI-RACISM AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO ART HISTORY…
This portal contains hundreds of references arranged along subject, themes and media in eight bibliographies.

April 15 2021, 10:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Kinja
I was raised in a household in which my mother, a divorced old-school feminist, openly hoped for the day when the “racist, angry old white men,” who keep our country in…

April 8 2021, 5:55am | Comments
Bookmark psychcentral.com
“When Kurzweil first started talking about the “singularity”, a conceit he borrowed from the science-fiction writer Vernor Vinge, he was dismissed as a fantasist.

April 8 2021, 5:55am | Comments
Bookmark The Closing of the Scientific Mind - David Gelernter, Commentary Magazine
The huge cultural authority science has acquired over the past century imposes large duties on every scientist. Scientists have acquired the power to impress and intimidate every time they open their…

April 8 2021, 5:55am | Comments
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April 3 2021, 8:42am | Comments
Bookmark We’re already colonizing Mars.
Sometime in April, the Ingenuity helicopter will take to the Martian air, making it, in NASA’s words, “the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.” Or,…

April 1 2021, 4:55am | Comments
Bookmark 1st preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says | Live…
The first dinosaur butthole ever discovered is shedding light where the sun don't shine. The discovery reveals how dinosaurs used this multipurpose opening — scientifically known as a cloacal vent —…

March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments
Bookmark Please Stop Calling Things Archives | Perspectives on History | AHA
Various disciplinary “archival turns” over the course of the past few decades have resulted in a tendency towards the over-casual use of the word “archive” as a shorthand to refer to,…

March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments
Bookmark Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years - BBC News
image copyrightClaire Simonin‎ / Ar ViltansouA French coastal community has finally cracked the mystery behind the Garfield telephones that have plagued its picturesque beaches for decades.

March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments
Bookmark Patricia Lockwood on Her Novel, No One Is Talking About This
No One Is Talking About This is out February 16. The internet deprogrammed Patricia Lockwood. It didn’t happen all at once.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Is Westernisation fact or fiction? The case of Japan and the US…
In 1860, Fukuzawa Yukichi, a young Japanese student still learning English himself, accompanied the first ever Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States as its English interpreter.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark The Engineer & the Artist: Negarestani vs. Land | Cybertrop(h)ic
Much has been made of the opposition between Reza Negarastani and Nick Land, between so-called neo-rationalism and libidinal materialism.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales in Unearthed 2005…
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman. To mark Black History Month once again, as well as the 25th anniversary of Democracy Now!, we turn now…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Scientists grow human-neanderthal hybrid 'minibrains' in petri dishes | Live Science
Sesame seed-size brains created from a mix of human and Neanderthal genes lived briefly in petri dishes in a University of California, San Diego laboratory, offering tantalizing clues as to how…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark NASA warns alien life may not be fuckable - The Beaverton
WASHINGTON – Following a recent uptick in UFO interest, NASA cautioned curious citizens against the notion that extraterrestrial life will be sexually desirable. Mrs.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Is Consciousness Everywhere? | The MIT Press Reader
Experience is in unexpected places, including in all animals, large and small, and perhaps even in brute matter itself.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Beeple thinks NFTs are a bubble, cashed out ETH earnings straightaway -…
In an interview with The New Yorker, Beeple said that as soon as he received his stash in ETH, he became concerned regarding Ethereum’s volatility, hence the immediate move to convert…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Where Do Men Go When They Get Lost? | by Zoetica Ebb…
I just lost a friend. In addition to the immense loss of life to Covid-19, we have lost people in other ways over the past year, when the confluence of quarantine,…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Theory in Crisis Seminar - Benjamin Noys, The Crisis of the Future…
What is the role of critical theory today and who is it for? What kind of maps can theory provide in the context of entrenched capitalist crisis? These are some of the…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans | New…
The existence of the Denisovans was discovered just a decade ago through DNA alone. Now we're starting to uncover fossils and artefacts revealing what these early humans were like TODAY, there…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Opinion | NFTs: What Are You Paying for When You Buy a…
On March 13, Li Jin sold a GIF for $25,000. A link to the moving image, which was assigned a unique bit of code as proof of authenticity and stored on…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Why “the Mind Is Just a Computation” Is a Fatally Flawed Idea…
The computational theory of mind (CTM) is the theory that the mind is a computation (calculation) done by the brain. That is, the mind works by rule-based manipulation of symbols, which…

March 31 2021, 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
Bookmark Life After the Fourth Industrial Revolution
It’s 7 AM, April 13th, 2025. Your smart clock rouses you from a dreamless sleep and you climb from bed as your house comes to life. The bathroom light turns itself…

March 30 2021, 12:55am | Comments
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March 11 2021, 8:03am | Comments
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February 2 2021, 5:52am | Comments
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January 31 2021, 3:58am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: If a shrunk-down hand were to squeeze the coronavirus... Physical virology (SLNYT) Of all the pandemic questions bedeviling scientists, the one that Juan Perilla is asking might be among the strangest: If a shrunk-down hand were to squeeze the coronavirus, would it squish, or would it shatter?

January 27 2021, 6:32pm | Comments
Bookmark Dougal Dixon’s After Man, the Initial Pitch Document — Tetrapod Zoology
There can’t be many visitors here who are unaware of Dougal Dixon and his 1981 book After Man (Dixon 1981), the work which effectively started the entire Speculative Zoology (or SpecZoo)…

January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments
Bookmark What do we know about the lives of Neanderthal women? | Aeon…
The first Neanderthal face to emerge from time’s sarcophagus was a woman’s. As the social and liberal revolutions of 1848 began convulsing Europe, quarry workers’ rough hands pulled her from the…

January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments

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