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• Bookmark The Anthropocentric Arrogance Of Classical Environmentalism | Big Think | Risk: Reason…

  I’m lucky to spend a couple weeks each August up at Moosehead Lake in Maine, where paved roads and power lines disappear and an endless blanket of rich green forests coat…

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• Bookmark Deadly Algorithms | Radical Philosophy

  Algorithms have long adjudicated over vital processes that help to ensure our well-being and survival, from pacemakers that maintain the natural rhythms of the heart, and genetic algorithms that optimise emergency…

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• Bookmark Who Goes There?

  Didja Know? This short story first appeared in Astounding Stories, August 1938, and is the inspiration for the 1951 film The Thing from Another World and 1982's The Thing. The 1982…

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• Projects 'Ways Of Something' Episode 2 Premiere at Transfer Gallery

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• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

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• Bookmark How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience | Science | WIRED

  HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

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• Instagram 3D Printed Charles Darwin (cc @morehshin @aand_nota)

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  In my dream there was a gameshow called "Haiku Shitface"

  

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• Bookmark An Unstoppable Killer: New Research Suggests Cancer Can't Be Eradicated : NPR

  Since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, the National Cancer Institute has poured some $90 billion into research and treatments. Yet a cure remains elusive.

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  Or, as Plato once put it, "hair, mud, and dirt."

  

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• Bookmark Our weird robot apocalypse: How paper clips could bring about the end…

  If you dread a robot revolt, stop worrying about killer computers, and start worrying about ... paper clips? Nick Bostrom is explaining to me how superintelligent AIs could destroy the human…

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• Bookmark Critical Theory After the Anthropocene | Public Seminar

  One does not have to look far to find intellectuals trained in the humanities, even the social sciences, who feel the need to ‘critique’ the concept of the Anthropocene.

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• Bookmark Venter steals top scholar from Google | UTSanDiego.com Mobile

  La Jolla geneticist J. Craig Venter has hired one of the world’s top computer scientists to help him try to prolong and improve people’s lives by deciphering hundreds of thousands of…

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• Bookmark Weird Philosophy | berfrois

  by Ben Woodard /0/ – Introduction I want to propose, as a trajectory into the philosophically weird, an absurd theoretical claim and pursue it, or perhaps more accurately, construct it as…

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• Bookmark » Interview with Thomas Ligotti The Teeming Brain

  Published in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2006) Some books and authors come into your life at precisely the right moment.

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• Bookmark Uvula Audio: At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft : SFFaudio

  Uvula Audio‘s James Campanella has added a complete reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s “quintessential work of horror” to his podcast feed. In China Miéville’s introduction to the Modern Library paperback edition of…

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• Bookmark The first conscious machines will probably be on Wall Street | The…

  We must consider the possibility that intelligence, creativity and even consciousness are purely functions of the material world, with human beings as a peculiar kind of computer.

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• Bookmark Cinephilia and Beyond: The Incredible Effects of The Thing

  The Incredible Effects of The Thing, Cinefantastique issue detailing the design and implementation of many of The Thing’s effects sequences. The visuals of both the desolate Antarctic and the ever-morphing alien…

  July 14 2014, 12:43am | Comments

• Bookmark 10 Hidden Details in Your City and What They Mean

  There was plenty of outrage earlier this month when a London storefront revealed sidewalk spikes meant to keep the homeless from getting too cozy. Tags: stream city desire paths list objects…

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• Bookmark Photomediations Machine | The ethical force of photographic mediation

  Given that mediation is, like time (or, indeed, life itself), both invisible and indivisible, any attempt at its representation must ultimately fail. It seems that the intellect can therefore understand photographs…

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• Bookmark AIs Have Mastered Chess. Will Go Be Next? - IEEE Spectrum

  Chou Chun-hsun, one of the world's top players of the ancient game of Go, sat hunched over a board covered with a grid of closely spaced lines. To the untrained eye,…

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• Bookmark The first conscious machines will probably be on Wall Street | The…

  We must consider the possibility that intelligence, creativity and even consciousness are purely functions of the material world, with human beings as a peculiar kind of computer.

  July 8 2014, 3:15am | Comments

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  "I can't wait to see what they do with the robots"

  

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• Bibliography The Posthuman by Rosi Braidotti

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• Bookmark 10 Hidden Details in Your City and What They Mean

  There was plenty of outrage earlier this month when a London storefront revealed sidewalk spikes meant to keep the homeless from getting too cozy.

  June 25 2014, 7:04am | Comments

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• Bookmark The Anthropocentric Arrogance Of Classical Environmentalism | Big Think | Risk: Reason…

  I’m lucky to spend a couple weeks each August up at Moosehead Lake in Maine, where paved roads and power lines disappear and an endless blanket of rich green forests coat…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Deadly Algorithms | Radical Philosophy

  Algorithms have long adjudicated over vital processes that help to ensure our well-being and survival, from pacemakers that maintain the natural rhythms of the heart, and genetic algorithms that optimise emergency…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Who Goes There?

  Didja Know? This short story first appeared in Astounding Stories, August 1938, and is the inspiration for the 1951 film The Thing from Another World and 1982's The Thing. The 1982…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Instagram Selfie with Doge

  September 8 2014, 7:53am | Comments

• Projects 'Ways Of Something' Episode 2 Premiere at Transfer Gallery

  September 3 2014, 6:07am | Comments

• Instagram Spontaneous geriatric combustion

  September 2 2014, 11:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

  August 31 2014, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience | Science | WIRED

  HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

  August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• Instagram 3D Printed Charles Darwin (cc @morehshin @aand_nota)

  August 29 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Twitter

  In my dream there was a gameshow called "Haiku Shitface"

  

  August 29 2014, 12:20am | Comments

• Portfolio Synthetic Assistants

  August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark An Unstoppable Killer: New Research Suggests Cancer Can't Be Eradicated : NPR

  Since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, the National Cancer Institute has poured some $90 billion into research and treatments. Yet a cure remains elusive.

  August 27 2014, 12:08pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Or, as Plato once put it, "hair, mud, and dirt."

  

  August 27 2014, 9:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Our weird robot apocalypse: How paper clips could bring about the end…

  If you dread a robot revolt, stop worrying about killer computers, and start worrying about ... paper clips? Nick Bostrom is explaining to me how superintelligent AIs could destroy the human…

  August 18 2014, 5:12pm | Comments

• YouTube

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  August 13 2014, 5:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Critical Theory After the Anthropocene | Public Seminar

  One does not have to look far to find intellectuals trained in the humanities, even the social sciences, who feel the need to ‘critique’ the concept of the Anthropocene.

  August 10 2014, 4:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Venter steals top scholar from Google | UTSanDiego.com Mobile

  La Jolla geneticist J. Craig Venter has hired one of the world’s top computer scientists to help him try to prolong and improve people’s lives by deciphering hundreds of thousands of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Weird Philosophy | berfrois

  by Ben Woodard /0/ – Introduction I want to propose, as a trajectory into the philosophically weird, an absurd theoretical claim and pursue it, or perhaps more accurately, construct it as…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark » Interview with Thomas Ligotti The Teeming Brain

  Published in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2006) Some books and authors come into your life at precisely the right moment.

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Uvula Audio: At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft : SFFaudio

  Uvula Audio‘s James Campanella has added a complete reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s “quintessential work of horror” to his podcast feed. In China Miéville’s introduction to the Modern Library paperback edition of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 15 2014, 3:28pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 15 2014, 1:56am | Comments

• Bookmark The first conscious machines will probably be on Wall Street | The…

  We must consider the possibility that intelligence, creativity and even consciousness are purely functions of the material world, with human beings as a peculiar kind of computer.

  July 14 2014, 1:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Cinephilia and Beyond: The Incredible Effects of The Thing

  The Incredible Effects of The Thing, Cinefantastique issue detailing the design and implementation of many of The Thing’s effects sequences. The visuals of both the desolate Antarctic and the ever-morphing alien…

  July 14 2014, 12:43am | Comments

• Bookmark 10 Hidden Details in Your City and What They Mean

  There was plenty of outrage earlier this month when a London storefront revealed sidewalk spikes meant to keep the homeless from getting too cozy. Tags: stream city desire paths list objects…

  July 12 2014, 2:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Photomediations Machine | The ethical force of photographic mediation

  Given that mediation is, like time (or, indeed, life itself), both invisible and indivisible, any attempt at its representation must ultimately fail. It seems that the intellect can therefore understand photographs…

  July 12 2014, 2:38am | Comments

• Bookmark AIs Have Mastered Chess. Will Go Be Next? - IEEE Spectrum

  Chou Chun-hsun, one of the world's top players of the ancient game of Go, sat hunched over a board covered with a grid of closely spaced lines. To the untrained eye,…

  July 12 2014, 2:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The first conscious machines will probably be on Wall Street | The…

  We must consider the possibility that intelligence, creativity and even consciousness are purely functions of the material world, with human beings as a peculiar kind of computer.

  July 8 2014, 3:15am | Comments

• Twitter

  "I can't wait to see what they do with the robots"

  

  July 1 2014, 7:19am | Comments

• Bibliography The Posthuman by Rosi Braidotti

  June 30 2014, 1:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark 10 Hidden Details in Your City and What They Mean

  There was plenty of outrage earlier this month when a London storefront revealed sidewalk spikes meant to keep the homeless from getting too cozy.

  June 25 2014, 7:04am | Comments

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