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• Podcast Cache Utopian Topographies | Dr Caroline Edwards

  Utopian Topographies Posted on May 18, 2018 in Talks | 0 comments I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled "Mapping Imaginary…

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• Bookmark Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic

  Of all the buzzy 21st-century tech phrases, “machine learning” threatens to be the most important. Programming computers is slow, but we’re nearing the point where humans give the bots parameters and…

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• Bookmark Pretty Loud For Being So Silenced | Current Affairs

  Irony can be a difficult concept to grasp, but some hypothetical examples can illustrate it clearly. It would be ironic, for instance, if people who claimed their free speech was being…

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• Bookmark Leaving Herland | The Point Magazine

  But even after I overcame my instinct for detachment, I remained wary of the movement’s language, which was a language of binaries: women and men.

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• Ask Metafilter Help me find this quote about living in possible worlds/utopias I read a quote recently, and cannot find it again. It was in an article or interview about better worlds, about the possibility of utopia. And the person writing/being interviewed quoted another thinker's doctrine, something like: "A possible world is only worth considering…

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• Bookmark Fatberg 'autopsy' reveals growing health threat to Londoners | UK news |…

  Fatbergs, the congealed mass of fat and discarded items that are increasingly blocking Britain’s sewers, are the consequence of the plastic crisis in Britain and contain potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria, tests…

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• Bookmark The humanist left must challenge the rise of cyborg socialism

  Undiagnosed by the mainstream media and much of the academic community, a major intellectual renewal is underway across the left. It is energetic and tech-savvy, building platforms such as Novara Media.

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• Bookmark Why Feminists Need to Seize the Memes of Production | Novara Media

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• Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - e-flux Architecture - e-flux

  We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

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• Bookmark Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail

  Limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius will not prevent destructive and deadly climate impacts, as once hoped, dozens of experts concluded in a score of scientific studies released Monday. A…

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• Bookmark An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried - Motherboard

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• Bookmark What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

  My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of…

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• Metafilter Ask MeFi: What would be the symptoms of a parasitic infection of the brain? Asking for fictional reasons. The parasite in question is T. Cruzi, which is the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Usually the little guy hangs out in heart muscle and causes heart attacks, but in this universe, the parasite now likes to live and…

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• Bookmark Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand…

  How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific…

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• Syllabus Cache Decolonising Science Reading List – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – Medium

  A note on Making Meaning of “Decolonising” — and in relation to that I want to be clear that the original motivation behind the creation of this list was to address a land claim issue: the use of Maunakea by…

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  In 2006 a man walked into an internet cafe in Kassel, Germany, and shot dead Halit Yozgat, a 21-year-old member of the Turkish-German family who owned it. It was the ninth…

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• Bookmark The Director of the Scariest Movie We’ve Ever Seen Still Fears Nuclear…

  In 1984, the BBC aired a TV movie so disturbing it would only repeat the broadcast once, a year later, on the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan. That…

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• Bookmark Black Atlantis - Viewpoint Magazine

  This review of Marvel’s Black Pan­ther is part of a forth­com­ing dossier on the polit­i­cal thought of Huey P. New­ton. It con­tains spoil­ers.

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• Metafilter MeFi: Classic Mario music but... cHAngED Super Mario Bros 2 with its music frequency table "reversed.". I'm not sure what that means exactly but it's certainly an, um, unique sound. The same thing done to Mario 3.

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• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

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• Syllabus Cache Teaching the Intersection Between Classics, Anthropology, and Colonialism – Everyday…

  It is no scoop for anyone that many academic disciplines were born in Europe during the Age of Empires. It is certainly the case of Classics and other Antiquity-related specialities. It is, also, the case of Anthropology.

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• Bookmark Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online - The Verge

  In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over…

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• Podcast Cache Utopian Topographies | Dr Caroline Edwards

  Utopian Topographies Posted on May 18, 2018 in Talks | 0 comments I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled "Mapping Imaginary…

  May 18 2018, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic

  Of all the buzzy 21st-century tech phrases, “machine learning” threatens to be the most important. Programming computers is slow, but we’re nearing the point where humans give the bots parameters and…

  May 13 2018, 6:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Why it’s so unhelpful to talk about the male or female brain…

  How many times did I say it – to myself, out loud alone or out loud to others, throughout my childhood? ‘I wish I were a boy.’ The words were mine,…

  May 13 2018, 6:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Pretty Loud For Being So Silenced | Current Affairs

  Irony can be a difficult concept to grasp, but some hypothetical examples can illustrate it clearly. It would be ironic, for instance, if people who claimed their free speech was being…

  May 10 2018, 6:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Leaving Herland | The Point Magazine

  But even after I overcame my instinct for detachment, I remained wary of the movement’s language, which was a language of binaries: women and men.

  April 30 2018, 4:24am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Help me find this quote about living in possible worlds/utopias I read a quote recently, and cannot find it again. It was in an article or interview about better worlds, about the possibility of utopia. And the person writing/being interviewed quoted another thinker's doctrine, something like: "A possible world is only worth considering…

  April 28 2018, 5:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Fatberg 'autopsy' reveals growing health threat to Londoners | UK news |…

  Fatbergs, the congealed mass of fat and discarded items that are increasingly blocking Britain’s sewers, are the consequence of the plastic crisis in Britain and contain potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria, tests…

  April 24 2018, 4:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark The humanist left must challenge the rise of cyborg socialism

  Undiagnosed by the mainstream media and much of the academic community, a major intellectual renewal is underway across the left. It is energetic and tech-savvy, building platforms such as Novara Media.

  April 24 2018, 4:34pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Why Feminists Need to Seize the Memes of Production | Novara Media

  Culture matters. Mainstream culture reflects and shapes the dominant ideas and behaviours of our society.

  April 15 2018, 10:25am | Comments

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  Not sure if tight chest and shallow breathing is symptom of hay fever or relentless abject cosmic despair

  

  April 15 2018, 6:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - e-flux Architecture - e-flux

  We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

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  April 6 2018, 6:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail

  Limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius will not prevent destructive and deadly climate impacts, as once hoped, dozens of experts concluded in a score of scientific studies released Monday. A…

  April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments

• Bookmark An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried - Motherboard

  Human extinction. The coordinated release of various strains of a human sterilization virus.

  April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments

• Bookmark What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

  My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of…

  March 19 2018, 12:27pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: What would be the symptoms of a parasitic infection of the brain? Asking for fictional reasons. The parasite in question is T. Cruzi, which is the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Usually the little guy hangs out in heart muscle and causes heart attacks, but in this universe, the parasite now likes to live and…

  March 14 2018, 11:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand…

  How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific…

  March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Decolonising Science Reading List – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – Medium

  A note on Making Meaning of “Decolonising” — and in relation to that I want to be clear that the original motivation behind the creation of this list was to address a land claim issue: the use of Maunakea by…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Decolonising Science Reading List – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – Medium

  Thank me for my free labor maintaining this list by making a donation to The Offing via Paypal, Crowdrise, or a monthly donation at Patreon.

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Forensic Architecture: the detail behind the devilry | Art and design |…

  In 2006 a man walked into an internet cafe in Kassel, Germany, and shot dead Halit Yozgat, a 21-year-old member of the Turkish-German family who owned it. It was the ninth…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Director of the Scariest Movie We’ve Ever Seen Still Fears Nuclear…

  In 1984, the BBC aired a TV movie so disturbing it would only repeat the broadcast once, a year later, on the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan. That…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Black Atlantis - Viewpoint Magazine

  This review of Marvel’s Black Pan­ther is part of a forth­com­ing dossier on the polit­i­cal thought of Huey P. New­ton. It con­tains spoil­ers.

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Classic Mario music but... cHAngED Super Mario Bros 2 with its music frequency table "reversed.". I'm not sure what that means exactly but it's certainly an, um, unique sound. The same thing done to Mario 3.

  March 12 2018, 2:34pm | Comments

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  March 5 2018, 4:13am | Comments

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  I Am Sitting in a Room but cloning dogs over and over until they turn into hairy living blobs

  

  March 4 2018, 6:19am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Teaching the Intersection Between Classics, Anthropology, and Colonialism – Everyday…

  It is no scoop for anyone that many academic disciplines were born in Europe during the Age of Empires. It is certainly the case of Classics and other Antiquity-related specialities. It is, also, the case of Anthropology.

  February 26 2018, 9:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online - The Verge

  In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over…

  February 8 2018, 7:07am | Comments

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