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  When did you encounter your first paradigm shift? Not the phenomenon itself, but the term? Perhaps at an airport bookstore, where bestselling authors of books with titles like Change Your Paradigm,…

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• Bookmark “There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New…

   THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

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  “Men have to toughen up,” Jordan B. Peterson writes in 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, “Men demand it, and women want it.” So, the first rule is, “Stand…

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  M John Harrison, 77, is the author of seven story collections and 12 novels, including Nova Swing, which won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction in 2007, and The…

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• Syllabus Cache The best nonfiction tech books of all time

  Not only does Ullman tell us what it was like to be an engineer during the dot-com bubble, but she does it in prose that many professional writers envy.

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• Ask Metafilter Cultural theory of 'The Edgelord'? The figure of 'The Edgelord' has been gaining traction in recent years. But I haven't read anything directed specifically at (theorising) this phenomena. Do you have any recommendations? Books, essays, YouTube polemics, podcasts etc. are all very welcome. OR The Edgelord's perceived relation…

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  You have full access to this article via your institution. Sci-Hub, the popular website that offers access to millions of pirated research papers and books, is no stranger to legal action.

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  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Deirdre Barrett’s body was in bed, but her mind was in a library.…

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• Bookmark Life’s Edge by Carl Zimmer review – what does it mean to…

  At a medical research laboratory in California, Alysson Muotri has used chemistry to change skin cells into neurons, which have multiplied to form “organoids” – globes of interconnected brain cells.

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• Reddit Have you read any scifi that you found overly disturbing? I like weird scifi, and sometimes I am in the mood for scifi that makes me uncomfortable. I don't necessarily mean horror or weird Lovecraftian fiction (not a fan) but just really dark scifi. So what are the weirdest, most unsettling scifi books…

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• Syllabus Cache Collapse of Civilization reading list

  This is a list of books on and related to collapse broken down by various categories.

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• Bookmark Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? - Los Angeles Review of Books

  IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an unacknowledged…

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• Reddit What is your personal SF/F Canon? Which authors or books really defined what science fiction and fantasy is for you? What is your personal SF/F canon? And not necessarily which books do you think define science fiction and/or fantasy best, but which ones defined them for you as you grew up or developed your taste in the genre? submitted by /u/ctopherrun…

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• Syllabus Cache The Black Anarchism Reader

  In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by…

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• Bookmark The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future…

  Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague…

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• Bookmark The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future…

  Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague…

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• Syllabus Cache Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to…

  To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

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• Bookmark The Posthuman Enlightenment | Public Books

  What does it take to think beyond the human? Can we imagine our human selves in other lives? And should we? While contemporary answers to these questions have highlighted the desirability…

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  Abbate, J. (2017) Recoding Gender: women's changing participation in computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Atkinson, P. (2011) Computer. London: Reaktion Books. Balsamo, A. (1999). Technologies of the gendered body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham: Duke University Bridle, J.

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• Bookmark We Get The Daddies We Deserve | MEL Magazine

  Greetings and welcome to Bro Bibles, a series in which I ruin my summer by reading the books your worst ex-boyfriend holds dear to his heart.

  September 21 2019, 9:02am | Comments

• Bookmark In Praise of Samuel R. Delany - The New York Times

  The author of “Dhalgren” and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world,” the novelist Jordy Rosenberg writes. So reflects the nameless…

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  In the mid-1980s, the easiest way to check out the latest computer games was to go to a bookstore in the mall. Past the John Grisham and the bargain history books…

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  If you decide to teach either one of these books next academic yr, I’d be more than happy to Skype into the discussion.

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• Podcast Cache Ezra Klein interview with N.K. Jemisin

  Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — just won the Hugo Award for best novel for the third year in a row. No one had ever done that before. Jemisin is also the…

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  We’ve long heard a lot about smart: smart homes, smart cities, smart grids, and more. It’s blowing up even more, with a lot of talk about AI these days. It’s all over pop culture, whether in tv, film,…

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  This summer, the fifth anniversary of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance passed quietly, adrift on a tide of news that now daily sweeps the ground from under our feet.

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• Bookmark What Was the “Paradigm Shift”? | The New Republic

  When did you encounter your first paradigm shift? Not the phenomenon itself, but the term? Perhaps at an airport bookstore, where bestselling authors of books with titles like Change Your Paradigm,…

  June 15 2024, 6:57pm | Comments

• Bookmark “There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New…

   THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

  November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | Pankaj Mishra | The New York Review…

  “Men have to toughen up,” Jordan B. Peterson writes in 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, “Men demand it, and women want it.” So, the first rule is, “Stand…

  November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments

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  November 7 2023, 7:35am | Comments

• Bookmark M John Harrison: ‘I want to be the first human to imitate…

  M John Harrison, 77, is the author of seven story collections and 12 novels, including Nova Swing, which won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction in 2007, and The…

  July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache The best nonfiction tech books of all time

  Not only does Ullman tell us what it was like to be an engineer during the dot-com bubble, but she does it in prose that many professional writers envy.

  June 29 2023, 7:34am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 27 2022, 2:33am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Cultural theory of 'The Edgelord'? The figure of 'The Edgelord' has been gaining traction in recent years. But I haven't read anything directed specifically at (theorising) this phenomena. Do you have any recommendations? Books, essays, YouTube polemics, podcasts etc. are all very welcome. OR The Edgelord's perceived relation…

  April 7 2022, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark What Sci-Hub’s latest court battle means for research

  You have full access to this article via your institution. Sci-Hub, the popular website that offers access to millions of pirated research papers and books, is no stranger to legal action.

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

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  January 19 2022, 8:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Did Covid Change How We Dream? - The New York Times

  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Deirdre Barrett’s body was in bed, but her mind was in a library.…

  November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Life’s Edge by Carl Zimmer review – what does it mean to…

  At a medical research laboratory in California, Alysson Muotri has used chemistry to change skin cells into neurons, which have multiplied to form “organoids” – globes of interconnected brain cells.

  September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments

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  August 1 2021, 6:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark Who Is GigaChad: Meme, Digital Creation or Russian Model?

  Digital CultureMiles Klee Share on FacebookShare on Twitter Share via email More Stories from MEL

  March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments

• Reddit Have you read any scifi that you found overly disturbing? I like weird scifi, and sometimes I am in the mood for scifi that makes me uncomfortable. I don't necessarily mean horror or weird Lovecraftian fiction (not a fan) but just really dark scifi. So what are the weirdest, most unsettling scifi books…

  December 23 2020, 10:31am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Collapse of Civilization reading list

  This is a list of books on and related to collapse broken down by various categories.

  September 21 2020, 5:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? - Los Angeles Review of Books

  IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an unacknowledged…

  August 11 2020, 10:13pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your personal SF/F Canon? Which authors or books really defined what science fiction and fantasy is for you? What is your personal SF/F canon? And not necessarily which books do you think define science fiction and/or fantasy best, but which ones defined them for you as you grew up or developed your taste in the genre? submitted by /u/ctopherrun…

  August 11 2020, 2:27pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache The Black Anarchism Reader

  In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by…

  June 3 2020, 11:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future…

  Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague…

  May 17 2020, 8:23am | Comments

• Bookmark The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future…

  Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague…

  May 17 2020, 1:23am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to…

  To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

  March 26 2020, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The Posthuman Enlightenment | Public Books

  What does it take to think beyond the human? Can we imagine our human selves in other lives? And should we? While contemporary answers to these questions have highlighted the desirability…

  February 12 2020, 10:16am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Feminist Voices in Technology

  Abbate, J. (2017) Recoding Gender: women's changing participation in computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Atkinson, P. (2011) Computer. London: Reaktion Books. Balsamo, A. (1999). Technologies of the gendered body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham: Duke University Bridle, J.

  October 27 2019, 1:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark We Get The Daddies We Deserve | MEL Magazine

  Greetings and welcome to Bro Bibles, a series in which I ruin my summer by reading the books your worst ex-boyfriend holds dear to his heart.

  September 21 2019, 9:02am | Comments

• Bookmark In Praise of Samuel R. Delany - The New York Times

  The author of “Dhalgren” and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world,” the novelist Jordy Rosenberg writes. So reflects the nameless…

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Video Games Are Better Without Characters - The Atlantic

  In the mid-1980s, the easiest way to check out the latest computer games was to go to a bookstore in the mall. Past the John Grisham and the bargain history books…

  May 23 2019, 10:58pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Race After Technology

  If you decide to teach either one of these books next academic yr, I’d be more than happy to Skype into the discussion.

  March 7 2019, 4:59pm | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: SPAM as part of artistic practice

  examples of artists using sPaM as part of their artistic practice. (thinking: jodi, constant dullaarts army of bots, horse ebooks, bestiary of Spam),,,

  January 10 2019, 3:49am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Ezra Klein interview with N.K. Jemisin

  Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — just won the Hugo Award for best novel for the third year in a row. No one had ever done that before. Jemisin is also the…

  January 3 2019, 6:31am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache AI & Culture: Buildings, Cities (and Infrastructures, and Beyond…)

  We’ve long heard a lot about smart: smart homes, smart cities, smart grids, and more. It’s blowing up even more, with a lot of talk about AI these days. It’s all over pop culture, whether in tv, film,…

  October 21 2018, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Edward Snowden Reconsidered | by Tamsin Shaw | NYR Daily | The…

  This summer, the fifth anniversary of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance passed quietly, adrift on a tide of news that now daily sweeps the ground from under our feet.

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

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