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  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,…

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  In 2011, a loose group of “grumpy futurists” wrote up an extensive list of “Alternatives to the Singularity” in a collaborative Google Document. “The Singularity”, in popular culture and para-religious belief,…

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  Silicon Valley is not a place known for its religiosity, yet a remarkable number of tech leaders and workers have an irrational belief in the Singularity.

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• Bookmark Silicon Valley’s Radical Machine Cult - Motherboard

  We are witnessing the beginning of Silicon Valley institutionalizing its religious beliefs.

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• Bookmark Silicon Valley’s Radical Machine Cult - Motherboard

  We are witnessing the beginning of Silicon Valley institutionalizing its religious beliefs.

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  To witness revolutionary futurity—the belief that social transformation is possible, and begins with a transcendence of the self—in a public space that fosters genuine politics, drive up San Francisco’s 24th Street…

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  The new atheists decry religion as a poisonous set of lies. But what if a belief in the supernatural is natural?

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  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

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  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

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• Wikipedia Otherkin Otherkin are a community of people who see themselves as partially or entirely non-human. They contend that they are, in spirit if not in body,[2] not human. This is explained by some members of the otherkin community as possible through reincarnation, having a…

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  Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

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  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

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  It's time for science to move on from materialism

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  Suspend your disbelief for "the scalping scene"

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  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

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  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

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  Which one of you is Jesus?

  September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments

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  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

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  Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New Atheism…

  August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments

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  Shock: Adam and Eve NEVER existed! (If it wasn't for you pesky biochemists...) http://t.co/hjiA8lK #religion #faith #belief #science #x

  August 18 2011, 1:37am | Comments

• Wikipedia Sacred Contagion Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually by direct contact or physical proximity. While the concept of sacred contagion has existed in numerous cultures since before…

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  A Trick of the Mind - Reason Magazine

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  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark The Myth of Separate Magisteria

  By now, nearly everyone with a passing interest in science or religion is familiar with Stephen Jay Gould’s description of the two disciplines as “non-overlapping magisteria” with separate domains — science…

  November 10 2010, 5:17am | Comments

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  Among the theorists who jumped into the market for models of the future, three stood out: Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer. Each made a splash with a controversial article,…

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  August 13 2023, 4:08pm | 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 A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you…

  Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life – money, power, jobs, university admission – should be…

  January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark Crapularity Aesthetics | Making & Breaking

  In 2011, a loose group of “grumpy futurists” wrote up an extensive list of “Alternatives to the Singularity” in a collaborative Google Document. “The Singularity”, in popular culture and para-religious belief,…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The right-wing politics of the “Singularity” | Salon.com

  Silicon Valley is not a place known for its religiosity, yet a remarkable number of tech leaders and workers have an irrational belief in the Singularity.

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Silicon Valley’s Radical Machine Cult - Motherboard

  We are witnessing the beginning of Silicon Valley institutionalizing its religious beliefs.

  November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Silicon Valley’s Radical Machine Cult - Motherboard

  We are witnessing the beginning of Silicon Valley institutionalizing its religious beliefs.

  November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark ABOLISH BORDERS as Revolutionary Futurity | Art Practical

  To witness revolutionary futurity—the belief that social transformation is possible, and begins with a transcendence of the self—in a public space that fosters genuine politics, drive up San Francisco’s 24th Street…

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Why humans find it hard to do away with religion

  The new atheists decry religion as a poisonous set of lies. But what if a belief in the supernatural is natural?

  January 27 2016, 11:02am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

  April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 3:12am | Comments

• Wikipedia Otherkin Otherkin are a community of people who see themselves as partially or entirely non-human. They contend that they are, in spirit if not in body,[2] not human. This is explained by some members of the otherkin community as possible through reincarnation, having a…

  May 1 2013, 2:02pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

  March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  No secularism please, we're British

  February 15 2012, 3:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It's time for science to move on from materialism

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Twitter

  Suspend your disbelief for "the scalping scene"

  October 29 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

  October 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Which one of you is Jesus?

  September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?

  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

  September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Atheism

  Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New Atheism…

  August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Shock: Adam and Eve NEVER existed! (If it wasn't for you pesky biochemists...) http://t.co/hjiA8lK #religion #faith #belief #science #x

  August 18 2011, 1:37am | Comments

• Wikipedia Sacred Contagion Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually by direct contact or physical proximity. While the concept of sacred contagion has existed in numerous cultures since before…

  August 12 2011, 8:08am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  A Trick of the Mind - Reason Magazine

  August 6 2011, 5:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark The Myth of Separate Magisteria

  By now, nearly everyone with a passing interest in science or religion is familiar with Stephen Jay Gould’s description of the two disciplines as “non-overlapping magisteria” with separate domains — science…

  November 10 2010, 5:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Conflict or Cooperation?

  Among the theorists who jumped into the market for models of the future, three stood out: Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer. Each made a splash with a controversial article,…

  November 5 2010, 5:54am | Comments

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