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• Bookmark Weird realism: John Gray on the moral universe of H P Lovecraft

  The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas…

  March 30 2015, 8:57am | Comments

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  Hominisation is the evolutionary and cultural process of “becoming human".

  

  March 30 2015, 3:27am | Comments

• Additivism ArtFCity: Speculate, Replicate, Eradicate: The 3D Additivist Manifesto

  Corinna Kirsch over at ArtFCity This week the Internet gave birth to a new manifesto.”The 3D Addivist Manifesto,” a collaborative video-text between artists Morehshin Allahyari and writer Daniel Rourke, explains the tenets of the digital manifesto over a sleek background of a black-and-white printed…

  March 20 2015, 9:41am | Comments

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  Affirmative Posthumanism

  

  March 16 2015, 8:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark Real Human Being – The New Inquiry

  A collection of essays on the work of Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter attempts to move toward a future beyond white supremacist narratives of human universality.  The past year’s high profile murders…

  March 12 2015, 7:46am | Comments

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• Bookmark The Labor of the Inhuman, Part I: Human | e-flux

  Inhumanism is the extended practical elaboration of humanism; it is born out of a diligent commitment to the project of enlightened humanism. As a universal wave that erases the self-portrait of…

  February 26 2015, 3:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists say all the world’s data can fit on a DNA hard…

  Even though it’s looking increasingly likely that humanity will find a way to wipe itself off the face of the Earth, there’s a chance that our creative output may live on.

  February 23 2015, 7:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Ghost in the MP3

  The MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Layer III standard, more commonly referred to as MP3, has become a nearly ubiquitous digital audio file format. First published in 1993, this codec implements a lossy…

  February 18 2015, 2:28pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Goodbye, Turing Test; Bring on the Turing Decathlon - Facts So Romantic…

  How many researchers does it take to change a test of artificial intelligence? Sixty-five years ago, famed mathematician and WWII code-breaker Alan Turing unveiled the “Imitation Game,” a playful scenario designed to…

  February 10 2015, 4:11am | Comments

• Bookmark What Happens When You Use a Visual Search Algorithm On Your Body…

  One day artificial intelligence might well identify any object that passes in front of its sensors, and with far greater depth and accuracy than humans. For now, we have smartphone apps…

  January 9 2015, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark The internet is so damn unpleasant. Do we need fewer humans and…

  In a welcome sign of the coming singularity, Buzzfeed just announced that it has built a sentence generator that mimics the turgid writing style of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.

  January 6 2015, 5:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Day You’ll Prefer Robots to Humans | Singularity HUB

  Finally, the robot revolution is arriving. There’s a Cambrian explosion in robotics, with species of all sizes, shapes and modes of mobility crawling out of the muck of the lab and…

  December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Deconstruction and Excision in Philosophical Transhumanism

  I distinguish the ethics of transhumanism from a related metaphysical position which I refer to as “speculative posthumanism.” Speculative posthumanism holds that posthumans might be radically non-human and thus unintelligible in…

  December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments

• Portfolio “Please don’t call me uncanny”: Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 1:17pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions "Please don't call me uncanny": Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 12:17pm | Comments

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• Bookmark The Transhumanist Future of Sex | Motherboard

  Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, journalist, and author of the novel The Transhumanist Wager. He writes an occasional column for Motherboard in which he ruminates on the future beyond natural human…

  November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Cooperation Is What Makes Us Human - Issue 18: Genius - Nautilus

  Tales about the origins of our species always start off like this: A small band of hunter-gatherers roams the savannah, loving, warring, and struggling for survival under the African sun. They…

  November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Bibliography Mutation, History, and Fantasy in the Posthuman. by R.L. Rutsky

  October 10 2014, 1:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Post-Human Nightmares – The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema

  A man wakes up one morning to find himself slowly transforming into a living hybrid of meat and scrap metal; he dreams of being sodomised by a woman with a snakelike,…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Portfolio Data as Culture

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• Furtherfield Contributions Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 6:37am | Comments

• Bookmark David Deutsch – On Artificial Intelligence

  It is uncontroversial that the human brain has capabilities that are, in some respects, far superior to those of all other known objects in the cosmos.

  September 19 2014, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark MIMETIC FACULTY « Sixth Sense Abcderium

  The ‘mimetic faculty’ is an elusive concept, foregrounding a human inclination to mimic or to imitate, to produce symbolic forms, representations and artefacts that mirror and also perhaps transform their objects.

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark The End of History? - In These Times

  It is not pleasant to contemplate the thoughts that must be passing through the mind of the Owl of Minerva as the dusk falls and she undertakes the task of interpreting…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

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• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

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• Portfolio Synthetic Assistants

  August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Our weird robot apocalypse: How paper clips could bring about the end…

  If you dread a robot revolt, stop worrying about killer computers, and start worrying about ... paper clips? Nick Bostrom is explaining to me how superintelligent AIs could destroy the human…

  August 18 2014, 5:12pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Weird realism: John Gray on the moral universe of H P Lovecraft

  The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas…

  March 30 2015, 8:57am | Comments

• Twitter

  Hominisation is the evolutionary and cultural process of “becoming human".

  

  March 30 2015, 3:27am | Comments

• Additivism ArtFCity: Speculate, Replicate, Eradicate: The 3D Additivist Manifesto

  Corinna Kirsch over at ArtFCity This week the Internet gave birth to a new manifesto.”The 3D Addivist Manifesto,” a collaborative video-text between artists Morehshin Allahyari and writer Daniel Rourke, explains the tenets of the digital manifesto over a sleek background of a black-and-white printed…

  March 20 2015, 9:41am | Comments

• Twitter

  Affirmative Posthumanism

  

  March 16 2015, 8:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark Real Human Being – The New Inquiry

  A collection of essays on the work of Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter attempts to move toward a future beyond white supremacist narratives of human universality.  The past year’s high profile murders…

  March 12 2015, 7:46am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 11 2015, 6:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Labor of the Inhuman, Part I: Human | e-flux

  Inhumanism is the extended practical elaboration of humanism; it is born out of a diligent commitment to the project of enlightened humanism. As a universal wave that erases the self-portrait of…

  February 26 2015, 3:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists say all the world’s data can fit on a DNA hard…

  Even though it’s looking increasingly likely that humanity will find a way to wipe itself off the face of the Earth, there’s a chance that our creative output may live on.

  February 23 2015, 7:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Ghost in the MP3

  The MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Layer III standard, more commonly referred to as MP3, has become a nearly ubiquitous digital audio file format. First published in 1993, this codec implements a lossy…

  February 18 2015, 2:28pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 18 2015, 1:31pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 10 2015, 4:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Goodbye, Turing Test; Bring on the Turing Decathlon - Facts So Romantic…

  How many researchers does it take to change a test of artificial intelligence? Sixty-five years ago, famed mathematician and WWII code-breaker Alan Turing unveiled the “Imitation Game,” a playful scenario designed to…

  February 10 2015, 4:11am | Comments

• Bookmark What Happens When You Use a Visual Search Algorithm On Your Body…

  One day artificial intelligence might well identify any object that passes in front of its sensors, and with far greater depth and accuracy than humans. For now, we have smartphone apps…

  January 9 2015, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark The internet is so damn unpleasant. Do we need fewer humans and…

  In a welcome sign of the coming singularity, Buzzfeed just announced that it has built a sentence generator that mimics the turgid writing style of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.

  January 6 2015, 5:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Day You’ll Prefer Robots to Humans | Singularity HUB

  Finally, the robot revolution is arriving. There’s a Cambrian explosion in robotics, with species of all sizes, shapes and modes of mobility crawling out of the muck of the lab and…

  December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Deconstruction and Excision in Philosophical Transhumanism

  I distinguish the ethics of transhumanism from a related metaphysical position which I refer to as “speculative posthumanism.” Speculative posthumanism holds that posthumans might be radically non-human and thus unintelligible in…

  December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments

• Portfolio “Please don’t call me uncanny”: Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 1:17pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions "Please don't call me uncanny": Cécile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery

  December 4 2014, 12:17pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 1 2014, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark The Transhumanist Future of Sex | Motherboard

  Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, journalist, and author of the novel The Transhumanist Wager. He writes an occasional column for Motherboard in which he ruminates on the future beyond natural human…

  November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Cooperation Is What Makes Us Human - Issue 18: Genius - Nautilus

  Tales about the origins of our species always start off like this: A small band of hunter-gatherers roams the savannah, loving, warring, and struggling for survival under the African sun. They…

  November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Bibliography Mutation, History, and Fantasy in the Posthuman. by R.L. Rutsky

  October 10 2014, 1:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Post-Human Nightmares – The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema

  A man wakes up one morning to find himself slowly transforming into a living hybrid of meat and scrap metal; he dreams of being sodomised by a woman with a snakelike,…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Portfolio Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 7:37am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Data as Culture

  October 1 2014, 6:37am | Comments

• Bookmark David Deutsch – On Artificial Intelligence

  It is uncontroversial that the human brain has capabilities that are, in some respects, far superior to those of all other known objects in the cosmos.

  September 19 2014, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark MIMETIC FACULTY « Sixth Sense Abcderium

  The ‘mimetic faculty’ is an elusive concept, foregrounding a human inclination to mimic or to imitate, to produce symbolic forms, representations and artefacts that mirror and also perhaps transform their objects.

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark The End of History? - In These Times

  It is not pleasant to contemplate the thoughts that must be passing through the mind of the Owl of Minerva as the dusk falls and she undertakes the task of interpreting…

  September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments

• Tumblr Human Loop

  September 4 2014, 4:46am | Comments

• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

  August 31 2014, 6:59am | Comments

• Portfolio Synthetic Assistants

  August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Our weird robot apocalypse: How paper clips could bring about the end…

  If you dread a robot revolt, stop worrying about killer computers, and start worrying about ... paper clips? Nick Bostrom is explaining to me how superintelligent AIs could destroy the human…

  August 18 2014, 5:12pm | Comments

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