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• Podcast Cache Zuboff is a PSYOP

  Cold open: Agent Zuboff receives her mission. Main show: We politically cancel Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, for advancing / mainstreaming a reactionary critique. Surveillance capitalism is not a “rogue mutation” of a normal…

  August 25 2020, 4:40pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

  April 1 2020, 4:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark Pirate Care - Pirate Care

  We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges…

  March 18 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Pirate Care - Pirate Care

  We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges for bringing contraceptives to those who otherwise…

  March 18 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette’ | The Nation

  A year ago, I came across an article by Stephen Elliott, a writer I’d admired.

  December 28 2019, 7:43pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 6 2019, 9:59am | Comments

• Bookmark If true, this could be one of the greatest discoveries in human…

  “I don’t care what people say,” asserts Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department and author of one of the most controversial articles in the realm of science last year…

  October 15 2019, 7:31pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Collapse: A reading list

  This post is a list of essays and articles covering climate and ecological breakdown from various perspectives, including how these overlapping crises may induce collapse of industrial civilisation as we know it. This is companion piece to my…

  January 28 2019, 9:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Please Stop Talking About the "Rise" of African Science Fiction | Literary…

  Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling)…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | 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 How imperialism still stops Britain from grasping how it looks to the…

  You have now reached your limit of 3 free articles in the last 30 days. But don't worry! You can get another 7 articles absolutely free, simply by entering your email…

  November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark How imperialism still stops Britain from grasping how it looks to the…

  You have now reached your limit of 3 free articles in the last 30 days. But don't worry! You can get another 7 articles absolutely free, simply by entering your email…

  November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments

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

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The New Observatory at FACT

  July 13 2017, 7:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Are We as Doomed as That New York Magazine Article Says? -…

  No one knows how to talk about climate change right now. I don’t have an idea about where to begin, and I write about it professionally. On the one hand, the…

  July 10 2017, 10:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem is a Communist Committee | Article |…

  Stanisław Lem – according to Philip K. Dick, Lem was a composite figure created by a communist committee, photo: Elżbieta LemppIn September 1974, the FBI received a letter.

  June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Uproar Over ‘Transracialism’

  The world of academic philosophy is ordinarily a rather esoteric one. But Rebecca Tuvel’s article “In Defense of Transracialism,” published in the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia this spring, has generated a…

  June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Cloning the neandertal: only a matter of time and resources

  Scientists are debating about a possible return of the Neanderthal. With stem cell technology breaking through elsewhere and a complete sequence of the Neanderthal genome at hand, it’s seemingly only a…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Aesthetics of the Alt-Right – Post-Office Arts Journal

  Editor’s Note: This article includes an in-depth inquiry into the online activities of political groups for which misogyny, racism, and anti-semitism become defining features; as such, images and mentions of those topics are found…

  March 6 2017, 2:07am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 1 2017, 6:10am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you…

  Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10…

  January 28 2017, 4:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Unbelievably True Story Of A 'Good-For-Nothing' Artist And Her Revolutionary Vagina…

  This article contains extensive descriptions of vaginas and might be NSFW, depending on your place of work. Growing up, Japanese artist Rokudenashiko ― who uses a pseudonym that translates to “good-for-nothing”…

  September 21 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 24 2016, 4:38am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Books on Food and its relation to Colonialism/Imperialism Are there any good books telling the story of imperialism/colonialism through food? Since reading Guns, Germs and Steel many years ago I have been fascinated with the origins of world food, especially when it highlights untold histories of civilisation. This article on 'How…

  July 13 2016, 5:00am | Comments

• Additivism More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species Into the Unknown

  April 16 2016, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Should we reimagine our colonial legacy?

  You have now reached your allowance of 3 free articles in the last 30 days. Don’t worry—to get another 7 articles absolutely free, just enter your email address in the box…

  March 17 2016, 5:05pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Hi, I'm a digital junkie, and I suffer from infomania Infomania, defined by the Oxford dictionary as "the compulsive desire to check or accumulate news and information, typically via mobile phone or computer." "I was recently described, to my face, as a 'modern digital junkie.' This diagnosis was given to me, half in…

  January 20 2016, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark The Death of the Cyberflâneur

  Palo Alto, Calif. THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 — published, of…

  December 28 2015, 2:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Facebook Aims Its AI at the Game No Computer Can Crack |…

  Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. In the mid-’90s, a computer program called Chinook beat the world’s top player at the game of checkers. Three years later, to much…

  November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Annotating online content + read later: new app solutions? I read a lot of content from articles/essays I save online. Sometimes I want to annotate these articles and organise them for research purposes. At the moment the best way to do this is Evernote, but I find the iPad / Android app…

  November 6 2015, 3:04am | Comments

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• Podcast Cache Zuboff is a PSYOP

  Cold open: Agent Zuboff receives her mission. Main show: We politically cancel Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, for advancing / mainstreaming a reactionary critique. Surveillance capitalism is not a “rogue mutation” of a normal…

  August 25 2020, 4:40pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

  April 1 2020, 4:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark Pirate Care - Pirate Care

  We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges…

  March 18 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Pirate Care - Pirate Care

  We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges for bringing contraceptives to those who otherwise…

  March 18 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette’ | The Nation

  A year ago, I came across an article by Stephen Elliott, a writer I’d admired.

  December 28 2019, 7:43pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 6 2019, 9:59am | Comments

• Bookmark If true, this could be one of the greatest discoveries in human…

  “I don’t care what people say,” asserts Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department and author of one of the most controversial articles in the realm of science last year…

  October 15 2019, 7:31pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Collapse: A reading list

  This post is a list of essays and articles covering climate and ecological breakdown from various perspectives, including how these overlapping crises may induce collapse of industrial civilisation as we know it. This is companion piece to my…

  January 28 2019, 9:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Please Stop Talking About the "Rise" of African Science Fiction | Literary…

  Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling)…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | 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 How imperialism still stops Britain from grasping how it looks to the…

  You have now reached your limit of 3 free articles in the last 30 days. But don't worry! You can get another 7 articles absolutely free, simply by entering your email…

  November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark How imperialism still stops Britain from grasping how it looks to the…

  You have now reached your limit of 3 free articles in the last 30 days. But don't worry! You can get another 7 articles absolutely free, simply by entering your email…

  November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments

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

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The New Observatory at FACT

  July 13 2017, 7:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Are We as Doomed as That New York Magazine Article Says? -…

  No one knows how to talk about climate change right now. I don’t have an idea about where to begin, and I write about it professionally. On the one hand, the…

  July 10 2017, 10:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem is a Communist Committee | Article |…

  Stanisław Lem – according to Philip K. Dick, Lem was a composite figure created by a communist committee, photo: Elżbieta LemppIn September 1974, the FBI received a letter.

  June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Uproar Over ‘Transracialism’

  The world of academic philosophy is ordinarily a rather esoteric one. But Rebecca Tuvel’s article “In Defense of Transracialism,” published in the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia this spring, has generated a…

  June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Cloning the neandertal: only a matter of time and resources

  Scientists are debating about a possible return of the Neanderthal. With stem cell technology breaking through elsewhere and a complete sequence of the Neanderthal genome at hand, it’s seemingly only a…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Aesthetics of the Alt-Right – Post-Office Arts Journal

  Editor’s Note: This article includes an in-depth inquiry into the online activities of political groups for which misogyny, racism, and anti-semitism become defining features; as such, images and mentions of those topics are found…

  March 6 2017, 2:07am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 1 2017, 6:10am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you…

  Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10…

  January 28 2017, 4:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The Unbelievably True Story Of A 'Good-For-Nothing' Artist And Her Revolutionary Vagina…

  This article contains extensive descriptions of vaginas and might be NSFW, depending on your place of work. Growing up, Japanese artist Rokudenashiko ― who uses a pseudonym that translates to “good-for-nothing”…

  September 21 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 24 2016, 4:38am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Books on Food and its relation to Colonialism/Imperialism Are there any good books telling the story of imperialism/colonialism through food? Since reading Guns, Germs and Steel many years ago I have been fascinated with the origins of world food, especially when it highlights untold histories of civilisation. This article on 'How…

  July 13 2016, 5:00am | Comments

• Additivism More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species Into the Unknown

  April 16 2016, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Should we reimagine our colonial legacy?

  You have now reached your allowance of 3 free articles in the last 30 days. Don’t worry—to get another 7 articles absolutely free, just enter your email address in the box…

  March 17 2016, 5:05pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Hi, I'm a digital junkie, and I suffer from infomania Infomania, defined by the Oxford dictionary as "the compulsive desire to check or accumulate news and information, typically via mobile phone or computer." "I was recently described, to my face, as a 'modern digital junkie.' This diagnosis was given to me, half in…

  January 20 2016, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark The Death of the Cyberflâneur

  Palo Alto, Calif. THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 — published, of…

  December 28 2015, 2:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Facebook Aims Its AI at the Game No Computer Can Crack |…

  Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. In the mid-’90s, a computer program called Chinook beat the world’s top player at the game of checkers. Three years later, to much…

  November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Annotating online content + read later: new app solutions? I read a lot of content from articles/essays I save online. Sometimes I want to annotate these articles and organise them for research purposes. At the moment the best way to do this is Evernote, but I find the iPad / Android app…

  November 6 2015, 3:04am | Comments

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