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• 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

• Facebook Cache list: digital futures

  I am teaching a class this summer called "Digital Futures." It is going to be a seminar-style class where I'm making students read a lot of books about "the future" and then talk about technology, ethics, their relation…

  May 10 2017, 4:55am | 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

• YouTube

  May 1 2017, 5:30am | 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

• Bookmark BBC - Future - How Western civilisation could collapse

  The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept spinning by economic growth.

  April 24 2017, 8:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction

  Science fiction tells us that a change in a past event, caused by the intervention of a time traveler, will open up a parallel timeline that leads to an alternate present.…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark What News-Writing Bots Mean for the Future of Journalism | WIRED

  This story is part of our special coverage, The News in Crisis. When Republican Steve King beat back Democratic challenger Kim Weaver in the race for Iowa’s 4th congressional district seat…

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Future Of Body Horror: Can Our Art Keep Up With Our…

  You see, what we’re talkin’ about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates ‘em perfectly. –Dr. Blair, The Thing

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Additivism Transmediale’s Revolution from Within

  February 21 2017, 2:43am | Comments

• Additivism Singularities panel, Transmediale (5th Feb 2017)

  February 16 2017, 2:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Radical, Cody Wilson, and the future of 3D-printed guns -…

  The mood in the room after an early Sundance screening of Adam Bhala Lough’s The New Radical was polite, but a little icy.

  January 28 2017, 4:33am | Comments

• Twitter

  “A planet piloted from the future by something that comes from outside"

  

  December 19 2016, 9:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Collective Intelligence of Women Could Save the World - Future of…

  Neil deGrasse Tyson was once asked about his thoughts on the cosmos. In a slow, gloomy voice, he intoned, “The universe is a deadly place. At every opportunity, it’s trying to…

  December 9 2016, 11:21am | Comments

• Projects HOLO 2: Results May Vary (contribution)

  December 9 2016, 2:04am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  I take responsibility stating that therourke I have turned the horror/dystopian now and future into a meaningful platform for acting

  December 5 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 4 2016, 8:24am | Comments

• Bookmark The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future |…

  Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly familiar and sexy, and imbued with a perversely dystopian allure.

  October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Fear of a Feminist Future | Laurie Penny

  To imagine the future is a political practice, which means that it’s both strangely awful and awfully strange. In 1990, a team of scientists and researchers was given the task of mapping far-future…

  October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future According to Stanisław Lem

  In his 1971 novella The Futurological Congress, the Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem describes a group of futurologists who have gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica to stave off…

  September 14 2016, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark A Nuclear Warning Designed to Last 10,000 Years

  Consider a wanderer 10,000 years in the future discovering a strange construction of granite thorns in the New Mexico desert, their points weathered by centuries, their shadows stretching at sinister angles.

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Tumblr The future of robotics = arrogant skeletons

  July 13 2016, 4:54am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The past just voted against the future.

  

  June 23 2016, 10:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dark Posthumanism: the weird template

  Billions of years in the future, the Time Traveller stands before a dark ocean, beneath a bloated red sun. The beach is dappled with lichen and ice. The huge crabs and…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Transhumanists are searching for a dystopian future - The Washington Post

  Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week, we’re talking about transhumanism. Need a primer? Catch up here. Charles…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Gender fluidity and the waning power of men - Frontpage - e-flux…

  In The Guardian, Amanda Holpuch writes about the new book The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future by former science reporter Frank Browning.

  June 15 2016, 4:59pm | Comments

• YouTube

  May 24 2016, 1:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species…

  The things we create define us, as a culture and as a species. Yet, so often, as we hurtle into the future, our creations seem to take on a life of…

  April 20 2016, 6:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Living factories of the future : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

  April 17 2016, 6:03am | Comments

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

  April 16 2016, 9:36am | Comments

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• 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

• Facebook Cache list: digital futures

  I am teaching a class this summer called "Digital Futures." It is going to be a seminar-style class where I'm making students read a lot of books about "the future" and then talk about technology, ethics, their relation…

  May 10 2017, 4:55am | 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

• YouTube

  May 1 2017, 5:30am | 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

• Bookmark BBC - Future - How Western civilisation could collapse

  The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept spinning by economic growth.

  April 24 2017, 8:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction

  Science fiction tells us that a change in a past event, caused by the intervention of a time traveler, will open up a parallel timeline that leads to an alternate present.…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark What News-Writing Bots Mean for the Future of Journalism | WIRED

  This story is part of our special coverage, The News in Crisis. When Republican Steve King beat back Democratic challenger Kim Weaver in the race for Iowa’s 4th congressional district seat…

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Future Of Body Horror: Can Our Art Keep Up With Our…

  You see, what we’re talkin’ about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates ‘em perfectly. –Dr. Blair, The Thing

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Additivism Transmediale’s Revolution from Within

  February 21 2017, 2:43am | Comments

• Additivism Singularities panel, Transmediale (5th Feb 2017)

  February 16 2017, 2:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Radical, Cody Wilson, and the future of 3D-printed guns -…

  The mood in the room after an early Sundance screening of Adam Bhala Lough’s The New Radical was polite, but a little icy.

  January 28 2017, 4:33am | Comments

• Twitter

  “A planet piloted from the future by something that comes from outside"

  

  December 19 2016, 9:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Collective Intelligence of Women Could Save the World - Future of…

  Neil deGrasse Tyson was once asked about his thoughts on the cosmos. In a slow, gloomy voice, he intoned, “The universe is a deadly place. At every opportunity, it’s trying to…

  December 9 2016, 11:21am | Comments

• Projects HOLO 2: Results May Vary (contribution)

  December 9 2016, 2:04am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  I take responsibility stating that therourke I have turned the horror/dystopian now and future into a meaningful platform for acting

  December 5 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 4 2016, 8:24am | Comments

• Bookmark The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future |…

  Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly familiar and sexy, and imbued with a perversely dystopian allure.

  October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Fear of a Feminist Future | Laurie Penny

  To imagine the future is a political practice, which means that it’s both strangely awful and awfully strange. In 1990, a team of scientists and researchers was given the task of mapping far-future…

  October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future According to Stanisław Lem

  In his 1971 novella The Futurological Congress, the Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem describes a group of futurologists who have gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica to stave off…

  September 14 2016, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark A Nuclear Warning Designed to Last 10,000 Years

  Consider a wanderer 10,000 years in the future discovering a strange construction of granite thorns in the New Mexico desert, their points weathered by centuries, their shadows stretching at sinister angles.

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Tumblr The future of robotics = arrogant skeletons

  July 13 2016, 4:54am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The past just voted against the future.

  

  June 23 2016, 10:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dark Posthumanism: the weird template

  Billions of years in the future, the Time Traveller stands before a dark ocean, beneath a bloated red sun. The beach is dappled with lichen and ice. The huge crabs and…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Transhumanists are searching for a dystopian future - The Washington Post

  Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week, we’re talking about transhumanism. Need a primer? Catch up here. Charles…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Gender fluidity and the waning power of men - Frontpage - e-flux…

  In The Guardian, Amanda Holpuch writes about the new book The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future by former science reporter Frank Browning.

  June 15 2016, 4:59pm | Comments

• YouTube

  May 24 2016, 1:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species…

  The things we create define us, as a culture and as a species. Yet, so often, as we hurtle into the future, our creations seem to take on a life of…

  April 20 2016, 6:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Living factories of the future : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

  April 17 2016, 6:03am | Comments

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

  April 16 2016, 9:36am | Comments

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