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Syllabus Cache Climate Justice in the Anthropocene: An Introductory Reading List -…
As the alarm bells have made it urgently clear—humanity has breached planetary boundaries—causing anthropogenic climate change and environmental disaster across the world.

August 3 2023, 11:34am | Comments
Bookmark Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just…
It’s hard to keep track of all the overlapping technological, environmental, and political crises to worry about in 2023.

April 18 2023, 4:53am | Comments
Bookmark Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just…
It’s hard to keep track of all the overlapping technological, environmental, and political crises to worry about in 2023.

April 18 2023, 12:53am | Comments
Bookmark The expanding orbit of Seattle science fiction writer Octavia Butler
Knowing that an author who wrote unsparingly about humanity’s capacity for violence and oppression dwelled amid such picturesque Pacific Northwest ordinariness is comforting. This quiet, unremarkable place would suit a diligent…

December 12 2022, 1:54am | Comments
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April 22 2022, 6:07am | Comments
Bookmark The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud | The MIT…
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage. The Cloud is not…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | 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
Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts
This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments
Bookmark Charles Murray Returns, Nodding to Caution but Still Courting Controversy - The…
Yes, that Charles Murray, who in 1994 co-authored “The Bell Curve,” with Richard J. Herrnstein, arguing in two notorious chapters that I.Q. differences between the races were mostly innate and mostly…

February 15 2020, 6:06am | Comments
Bookmark Hack the Planet: Tega Brain on Leaks, Glitches, and Preposterous Futures
While technology critics drag technological solutionism in five thousand words or 280 characters, artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain wields solutions against themselves, in the form of objects and installations.

February 14 2020, 5:36am | Comments
Bookmark An Archaeologist Writes against the Anthropocene | Open Rivers Journal
Much of what archaeologists do is study how humans adapt to the environment. After Gordon Willey’s (1953) groundbreaking investigation into the entire history of occupation of a small valley in Peru,…

August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments
Bookmark Portrait of a planet on the verge of climate catastrophe | Environment…
As the UN sits down for its annual climate conference this week, many experts believe we have passed the point of no return by On Sunday morning hundreds of politicians, government…

January 23 2019, 4:59pm | Comments
Bookmark ‘It’s Time to Decolonize Environmentalism’: An Interview with Zina Saro-Wiwa | Frieze
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October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025…
The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025, hampering attempts to meet climate change targets and straining grids as demand by power-hungry server farms storing digital…

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark CENHS @ Rice! » New Materialism, Environmental Justice, and Digital Sites of…
Below is a shortened version of Annie Culver’s essay that won Honorable Mention in the 2017 Greene Prize for Environmental Writing. Annie is a PhD student in English at Rice University.

September 4 2018, 9:31am | Comments
Bookmark Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild…
Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world’s 7.6…

May 24 2018, 3:47am | Comments
Podcast Cache Utopian Topographies | Dr Caroline Edwards
Utopian Topographies Posted on May 18, 2018 in Talks | 0 comments I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled "Mapping Imaginary…

May 18 2018, 4:09am | Comments
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April 24 2018, 8:46am | Comments
Portfolio NXS Issue #2 Synthetic Selves

November 10 2017, 7:18am | Comments
Bookmark Against ‘Sustainability’ - The New York Times
Among the many stories that can be told about the origins of the environmental movement in the West, perhaps the most common is that it began with the emergence of Romanticism…

October 25 2017, 10:50am | Comments
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August 9 2017, 9:29am | Comments
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August 5 2017, 6:09am | Comments
Bookmark Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals | Martin…
Would you advise someone to flap towels in a burning house? To bring a flyswatter to a gunfight? Yet the counsel we hear on climate change could scarcely be more out…

July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments
Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments
Bookmark Veggieworld: Why eating greens won't save the planet | New Scientist
IF YOU’RE a typical westerner, you ate nearly 100 kilograms of meat last year. This was almost certainly the costliest part of your diet, especially in environmental terms. The clamour for…

June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Additivism #Additivism Workshop: Designing Post-Natural Futures (Athens,...
Additivism Workshop: Designing Post-Natural Futures (Athens, 10-11 Jun 2017) 12:00-18:00 - Diplareios School (Theatrou sq 3, Athens centre)This #additivism workshop led by Daniel Rourke and Geraldine Juárez invites us to an exploration of post-natural history, geo-history and Mediterranean world-ecologies, emphasizing critical perspectives driven from…

June 2 2017, 5:06am | Comments
Bookmark The great climate silence: we are on the edge of the abyss…
We continue to plan for the future as if climate scientists don’t exist. The greatest shame is the absence of a sense of tragedy We continue to plan for the future…

May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Our Climate Future Is Actually Our Climate Present
The future we’ve been warned about is beginning to saturate the present. We tend to imagine climate change as a destroyer. But it also traffics in disruption, disarray: increasingly frequent and…

April 25 2017, 8:01am | Comments
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February 20 2017, 3:36pm | Comments
Bookmark How to Crochet a Coral Reef--and Why - Scientific American Blog Network
It’s hard to get people’s attention focused on the environment. Blame it on diminishing attention spans, overwhelming amounts of information, or simply the fact that people grow weary of hearing the…

January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Design+Media Theory | Public Seminar
Our focus will be on key thinkers across the fields of media, design and technology. The course starts our everyday experience of designed and mediated environments, whether as creators or regular users (1-3).

December 30 2016, 9:09am | Comments
Podcast Cache Masters of the Anthropocene Boundary | Generation Anthropocene
It’s our 50th episode! To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding whether or not we formally adopt the Anthropocene into the geologic time table. We…

October 6 2016, 9:17am | Comments

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