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• Bookmark No Human Being Can Exist | Online Only | n+1 | Saree…

  How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite? Recently, an Australian-Palestinian friend of mine was invited to…

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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.

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  Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

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• Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs

  Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

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• Bookmark ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving…

  Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

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• Bookmark ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving…

  Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

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• Bookmark Mining the Planet to Death: The Dirty Truth About Clean Technologies -…

  The poor South is being exploited so that the rich North can transition to environmental sustainability. Entire swaths of land are being destroyed to secure the resources needed to produce wind…

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• Bookmark Alien Dreams: The Surprisingly Long History of Speculation About Extraterrestrials | The…

  The idea that other worlds might be home to alien beings has been part of our thought for as long as we have been looking skyward. To feel small, all we…

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• Bookmark Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter | The New Yorker

  In the eleventh century, St. Anselm of Canterbury proposed an argument for the existence of God that went roughly like this: God is, by definition, the greatest being that we can…

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• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

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• Bookmark Collective Turn-off – Sophie Lewis – Mal

  I think human beings are turned off right now. Of course it is tempting to rationalise our turned-off-ness with reference to Covid-19. But it is not – it can never be…

  August 19 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: "Wildcat The Totality" - Fred Moten And Stefano…

  This is part one of a two-part conversation with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.  Fred Moten is the author of In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, multiple volumes of poetry, and most recently the…

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  Everything’s shutting down, with public gatherings on lockdown and with art events cancelled across the board, what can art students do about the prospect of their degree shows being cancelled/postponed? Are…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub

  In Antoine de Saint Exupéry's tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed.…

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• Bookmark My degree show was cancelled – what can I do instead? The…

  Everything’s shutting down, with public gatherings on lockdown and with art events cancelled across the board, what can art students do about the prospect of their degree shows being cancelled/postponed? Are…

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• Podcast Cache #86 After Geoengineering w/ Holly Buck

  Holly Buck joins me to discuss her new book, After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. We talked about why we may have little choice but to undertake geoengineering to avert the worst of the climate crisis. We…

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• Syllabus Cache Towards a Viable Planetarity: The Terraforming Reading List — Strelka Mag

  Applications for the new program directed by design theorist Benjamin Bratton are being accepted until October 31. Find out more about The Terraforming here. Benjamin Bratton’s latest book lays the groundwork for the upcoming research project at Strelka…

  September 24 2019, 1:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark I am not always very attached to being alive | The Outline

  I wish there was a nicer way to say this, but I don’t always want to be alive.

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

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  As a climate scientist, I am often asked to talk about hope. Particularly in the current political climate, audiences want to be told that everything will be all right in the…

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• Bookmark Daddy Issues | Katherine Angel | Granta

  In the awful, wearying months in which Harvey Weinstein’s ritualistic mistreatment of women was being recounted daily in the media, I found myself, like so many others, wondering and talking about…

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  As I was being wheeled out of the post-anesthesia care unit at Mount Sinai, three incisions across my abdomen freshly glued shut and fentanyl warm in my veins, a nurse bustled…

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• Bookmark Ways to Defy the Pressure to Perform :: Why is everybody being…

  A pamphlet for the exhibition Sheffield 08: Yes No and Other Options How can we address the current changes in our societies and lives? Some say that we have come to…

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  Modern technology seems always to have been judged according to its utility for human beings. To the extent that technologies have been viewed as tools, instruments, or prostheses for human use,…

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• Bookmark No Human Being Can Exist | Online Only | n+1 | Saree…

  How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite? Recently, an Australian-Palestinian friend of mine was invited to…

  November 17 2024, 4:27am | Comments

• 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

• Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs

  Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

  July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs

  Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

  July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  for millennia human beings have wondered: “what does the cosmos taste like?”

  

  July 7 2022, 6:28am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving…

  Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving…

  Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 6 2021, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Mining the Planet to Death: The Dirty Truth About Clean Technologies -…

  The poor South is being exploited so that the rich North can transition to environmental sustainability. Entire swaths of land are being destroyed to secure the resources needed to produce wind…

  November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  the Queen is being surgically grafted into a mech suit

  

  November 17 2021, 3:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark Alien Dreams: The Surprisingly Long History of Speculation About Extraterrestrials | The…

  The idea that other worlds might be home to alien beings has been part of our thought for as long as we have been looking skyward. To feel small, all we…

  August 17 2021, 7:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter | The New Yorker

  In the eleventh century, St. Anselm of Canterbury proposed an argument for the existence of God that went roughly like this: God is, by definition, the greatest being that we can…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• YouTube

  September 17 2020, 10:08am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

  September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Collective Turn-off – Sophie Lewis – Mal

  I think human beings are turned off right now. Of course it is tempting to rationalise our turned-off-ness with reference to Covid-19. But it is not – it can never be…

  August 19 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: "Wildcat The Totality" - Fred Moten And Stefano…

  This is part one of a two-part conversation with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.  Fred Moten is the author of In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, multiple volumes of poetry, and most recently the…

  July 29 2020, 1:03am | Comments

• Bookmark My degree show was cancelled – what can I do instead? The…

  Everything’s shutting down, with public gatherings on lockdown and with art events cancelled across the board, what can art students do about the prospect of their degree shows being cancelled/postponed? Are…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub

  In Antoine de Saint Exupéry's tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed.…

  June 16 2020, 5:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark My degree show was cancelled – what can I do instead? The…

  Everything’s shutting down, with public gatherings on lockdown and with art events cancelled across the board, what can art students do about the prospect of their degree shows being cancelled/postponed? Are…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Podcast Cache #86 After Geoengineering w/ Holly Buck

  Holly Buck joins me to discuss her new book, After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. We talked about why we may have little choice but to undertake geoengineering to avert the worst of the climate crisis. We…

  May 13 2020, 5:59pm | Comments

• YouTube

  October 4 2019, 11:36am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Towards a Viable Planetarity: The Terraforming Reading List — Strelka Mag

  Applications for the new program directed by design theorist Benjamin Bratton are being accepted until October 31. Find out more about The Terraforming here. Benjamin Bratton’s latest book lays the groundwork for the upcoming research project at Strelka…

  September 24 2019, 1:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark I am not always very attached to being alive | The Outline

  I wish there was a nicer way to say this, but I don’t always want to be alive.

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Bookmark We Need Courage, Not Hope, to Face Climate Change - The On…

  As a climate scientist, I am often asked to talk about hope. Particularly in the current political climate, audiences want to be told that everything will be all right in the…

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

  August 8 2019, 5:56am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 3 2019, 6:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Daddy Issues | Katherine Angel | Granta

  In the awful, wearying months in which Harvey Weinstein’s ritualistic mistreatment of women was being recounted daily in the media, I found myself, like so many others, wondering and talking about…

  July 2 2019, 6:44pm | Comments

• YouTube

  May 29 2019, 7:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Too Human — Real Life

  As I was being wheeled out of the post-anesthesia care unit at Mount Sinai, three incisions across my abdomen freshly glued shut and fentanyl warm in my veins, a nurse bustled…

  May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ways to Defy the Pressure to Perform :: Why is everybody being…

  A pamphlet for the exhibition Sheffield 08: Yes No and Other Options How can we address the current changes in our societies and lives? Some say that we have come to…

  April 17 2019, 7:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Technological and Posthuman Zones – Critical Posthumanism

  Modern technology seems always to have been judged according to its utility for human beings. To the extent that technologies have been viewed as tools, instruments, or prostheses for human use,…

  November 30 2018, 3:17am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 19 2018, 10:22am | Comments

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