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• Bookmark Annihilation and How the Movie Understands Depression

  Let’s talk about what it means to destroy yourself. In the relatively short time I’ve been alive, I have made an art out of self-destruction. I’ve placed myself in frightening situations…

  April 18 2019, 1:46pm | Comments

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  March 20 2019, 10:15am | Comments

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  January 25 2019, 8:10am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Stoker-King model vs Rice model vs Harris-Meyer-Kostova model Here's How Long it Would Take for Vampires to Annihilate Humanity

  January 23 2019, 1:30pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Weird Studies Episode 36: On Hyperstition

  JF and Phil talk hyperstitions, entities born in the realm of fantasy that slowly become denizens of the real. https://www.weirdstudies.com/36

  December 27 2018, 4:10pm | Comments

• Bookmark Opinion | Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy? - The New York…

  Our species possesses inherent value, but we are devastating the earth and causing unimaginable animal suffering. There are stirrings of discussion these days in philosophical circles about the prospect of human…

  December 19 2018, 10:30am | Comments

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  December 1 2018, 1:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark There be monsters: from cabinets of curiosity to demons within | Aeon…

  In 2003, a team of scientists in China managed to create embryos containing a mix of rabbit and human DNA. Most of the biological matter was human, while the rabbit DNA…

  November 7 2018, 7:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Uses of Disaster • Commune

  Climate change is here. In the midst of the storm, an opportunity arises to break with capitalism and its vicious inequality. Let’s seize it while we can. The alternatives are unthinkable.

  October 27 2018, 4:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Revolutionary Monsters: the Suicide of Identity Politics

  In their discourse on the revolution, Negri and Hardt use the concept of a positive generative monster. Monstrosity arises as otherness, something contrary to the existing order. It is a freak…

  October 20 2018, 8:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark Stop treating tech jerks like gods

  Could we stop worshipping rich men who are jerks? On Tuesday, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla, took to Twitter once again with bizarre comments, saying how “strange” it is…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Bones found in Polish cave belonged to Neanderthal kid whose fingers were…

  The bone fragments were found in Polish cave and are believed to have belonged to a Neanderthal child who died 115,000 years ago. They may be tiny, but these bone fragments…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Instagram atropelos.com is now officially launched!

  September 28 2018, 7:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Children Are Easily Peer Pressured by Robots, Study Finds - Motherboard

  The eerie possibility of robots manipulating humans crops up in science fiction tales like Ex Machina or Battlestar Galactica.

  August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments

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  August 19 2018, 10:22am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital

  Nick Land is a British philosopher living in Shanghai. Nick is one of the main figures in the school of thought known as accelerationism. He is currently writing a book about the philosophical implications of Bitcoin. We talked…

  August 15 2018, 8:28am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 1 2018, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark The Rich Are Planning to Leave This Wretched Planet - The New…

  Here comes private space travel — with cocktails, retro-futuristic Philippe Starck designs and Wi-Fi. Just $55 million a trip!

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

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  June 11 2018, 10:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Slime Is Everywhere: A Cultural Compendium - GARAGE

  “There are periods when ears and eyes are full of slime,” wrote Nietzsche in 1879, “so that they can no longer hear the voice of reason and philosophy or see the…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

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  May 22 2018, 1:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why it’s so unhelpful to talk about the male or female brain…

  How many times did I say it – to myself, out loud alone or out loud to others, throughout my childhood? ‘I wish I were a boy.’ The words were mine,…

  May 13 2018, 6:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Memes That Kill: The Future Of Information Warfare

  Memes and social networks have become weaponized, while many governments seem ill-equipped to understand the new reality of information warfare. How will we fight state-sponsored disinformation and propaganda in the future?

  May 8 2018, 4:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Annihilation and How the Movie Understands Depression

  Let’s talk about what it means to destroy yourself. In the relatively short time I’ve been alive, I have made an art out of self-destruction. I’ve placed myself in frightening situations…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark This Professor Has Documented 2,000 Soda Machines in Video Games - Waypoint

  In 2016, Marshall University professor Jason Morrissette was playing Batman: Arkham Knight. While sneaking around the shadows, Morrissette stumbled upon a soda machine. Like many games, Akrham Knight doesn’t feature any…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark If humans gave up on geoengineering after 50 years, it could be…

  The model shows catastrophic outcomes: while the project is running, habitats are well-protected from climate change and animals cease chasing new latitudes they can survive in.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Outer Space: Hexus Journal…

  To start our run up to Halloween, Thogdin Ripley and Philippa Snow of avant-horror publishers Hexus Journal pick thirteen films that blur the worlds of horror and the avant-garde to frightening,…

  January 13 2018, 11:11am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Editing Wikipedia while drunk

  

  January 4 2018, 9:26am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 7 2017, 3:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark The 432Hz 'God' Note: Why Fringe Audiophiles Want to Topple Standard Tuning…

  The first time Ivan Yanakiev heard an instrument tuned to 432 Hertz, he says, it was like he'd heard God speak.

  November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Why the Western philosophical canon is xenophobic and racist | Aeon Essays

  Mainstream philosophy in the so-called West is narrow-minded, unimaginative, and even xenophobic. I know I am levelling a serious charge.

  November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments

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• Bookmark Annihilation and How the Movie Understands Depression

  Let’s talk about what it means to destroy yourself. In the relatively short time I’ve been alive, I have made an art out of self-destruction. I’ve placed myself in frightening situations…

  April 18 2019, 1:46pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 20 2019, 10:15am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 25 2019, 8:10am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Stoker-King model vs Rice model vs Harris-Meyer-Kostova model Here's How Long it Would Take for Vampires to Annihilate Humanity

  January 23 2019, 1:30pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Weird Studies Episode 36: On Hyperstition

  JF and Phil talk hyperstitions, entities born in the realm of fantasy that slowly become denizens of the real. https://www.weirdstudies.com/36

  December 27 2018, 4:10pm | Comments

• Bookmark Opinion | Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy? - The New York…

  Our species possesses inherent value, but we are devastating the earth and causing unimaginable animal suffering. There are stirrings of discussion these days in philosophical circles about the prospect of human…

  December 19 2018, 10:30am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 1 2018, 1:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark There be monsters: from cabinets of curiosity to demons within | Aeon…

  In 2003, a team of scientists in China managed to create embryos containing a mix of rabbit and human DNA. Most of the biological matter was human, while the rabbit DNA…

  November 7 2018, 7:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Uses of Disaster • Commune

  Climate change is here. In the midst of the storm, an opportunity arises to break with capitalism and its vicious inequality. Let’s seize it while we can. The alternatives are unthinkable.

  October 27 2018, 4:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Revolutionary Monsters: the Suicide of Identity Politics

  In their discourse on the revolution, Negri and Hardt use the concept of a positive generative monster. Monstrosity arises as otherness, something contrary to the existing order. It is a freak…

  October 20 2018, 8:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark Stop treating tech jerks like gods

  Could we stop worshipping rich men who are jerks? On Tuesday, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla, took to Twitter once again with bizarre comments, saying how “strange” it is…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Bones found in Polish cave belonged to Neanderthal kid whose fingers were…

  The bone fragments were found in Polish cave and are believed to have belonged to a Neanderthal child who died 115,000 years ago. They may be tiny, but these bone fragments…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Instagram atropelos.com is now officially launched!

  September 28 2018, 7:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Children Are Easily Peer Pressured by Robots, Study Finds - Motherboard

  The eerie possibility of robots manipulating humans crops up in science fiction tales like Ex Machina or Battlestar Galactica.

  August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 19 2018, 10:22am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital

  Nick Land is a British philosopher living in Shanghai. Nick is one of the main figures in the school of thought known as accelerationism. He is currently writing a book about the philosophical implications of Bitcoin. We talked…

  August 15 2018, 8:28am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 1 2018, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark The Rich Are Planning to Leave This Wretched Planet - The New…

  Here comes private space travel — with cocktails, retro-futuristic Philippe Starck designs and Wi-Fi. Just $55 million a trip!

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 11 2018, 10:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Slime Is Everywhere: A Cultural Compendium - GARAGE

  “There are periods when ears and eyes are full of slime,” wrote Nietzsche in 1879, “so that they can no longer hear the voice of reason and philosophy or see the…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 22 2018, 1:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why it’s so unhelpful to talk about the male or female brain…

  How many times did I say it – to myself, out loud alone or out loud to others, throughout my childhood? ‘I wish I were a boy.’ The words were mine,…

  May 13 2018, 6:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Memes That Kill: The Future Of Information Warfare

  Memes and social networks have become weaponized, while many governments seem ill-equipped to understand the new reality of information warfare. How will we fight state-sponsored disinformation and propaganda in the future?

  May 8 2018, 4:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Annihilation and How the Movie Understands Depression

  Let’s talk about what it means to destroy yourself. In the relatively short time I’ve been alive, I have made an art out of self-destruction. I’ve placed myself in frightening situations…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark This Professor Has Documented 2,000 Soda Machines in Video Games - Waypoint

  In 2016, Marshall University professor Jason Morrissette was playing Batman: Arkham Knight. While sneaking around the shadows, Morrissette stumbled upon a soda machine. Like many games, Akrham Knight doesn’t feature any…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark If humans gave up on geoengineering after 50 years, it could be…

  The model shows catastrophic outcomes: while the project is running, habitats are well-protected from climate change and animals cease chasing new latitudes they can survive in.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Outer Space: Hexus Journal…

  To start our run up to Halloween, Thogdin Ripley and Philippa Snow of avant-horror publishers Hexus Journal pick thirteen films that blur the worlds of horror and the avant-garde to frightening,…

  January 13 2018, 11:11am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Editing Wikipedia while drunk

  

  January 4 2018, 9:26am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 7 2017, 3:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark The 432Hz 'God' Note: Why Fringe Audiophiles Want to Topple Standard Tuning…

  The first time Ivan Yanakiev heard an instrument tuned to 432 Hertz, he says, it was like he'd heard God speak.

  November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Why the Western philosophical canon is xenophobic and racist | Aeon Essays

  Mainstream philosophy in the so-called West is narrow-minded, unimaginative, and even xenophobic. I know I am levelling a serious charge.

  November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments

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