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Bookmark The Case for Prince ❧ Current Affairs
By appreciating just how good the Purple One was, we see what music can be and ought to be. Until recently, I had no idea just how good Prince was. I…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark What Does It Mean To Buy a Gif? | Jack Rusher
It’s everywhere on the Internet right now—NFT this, Rarible that. Tokens, tokens, come get your tokens! We’ve got people shouting that the whole idea is an absurdity or an abomination, others…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Why “the Mind Is Just a Computation” Is a Fatally Flawed Idea…
The computational theory of mind (CTM) is the theory that the mind is a computation (calculation) done by the brain. That is, the mind works by rule-based manipulation of symbols, which…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Parasite-inspired drug delivery system could be the future of medicine - BBC…
You based the technology on parasitic hookworms. Where did that idea come from? We’ve been trying to deliver drugs through the gastrointestinal tract, and that is a formidable challenge because the…

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual…
Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler*, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of gender as performance.

October 9 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen
What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments
Bookmark Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto – Indigenous Action Media
Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism? We live the future of a past that is not our own. It is a history…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic - Scientific…
As a clinical geneticist, Paul James is accustomed to discussing some of the most delicate issues with his patients. But in early 2010, he found himself having a particularly awkward conversation…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto – Indigenous Action Media
Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism? We live the future of a past that is not our own. It is a history…

June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments
Bookmark As Sea Levels Rise, Scientists Offer a Bold Idea: Dam the North…
A proposal to build two huge barriers — one that would connect Norway to Scotland, the other France to England — was described as a warning about the urgency of the…

February 18 2020, 6:26pm | Comments
Bookmark What does it mean to be human? - Digg
Gaia Vince discovers that analyzing the genetics of ancient humans means changing ideas about our evolution. The Rock of Gibraltar appears out of the plane window as an immense limestone monolith…

January 22 2020, 6:57pm | Comments
Bookmark A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you…
Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life – money, power, jobs, university admission – should be…

January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments
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February 8 2019, 6:24am | Comments
Bookmark Viewpoint: Why we still underestimate the Neanderthals - BBC News
Prof Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, explains why some old assumptions about the intellectual capabilities of our evolutionary relatives, the Neanderthals persist today. But a body of evidence is…

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson: the missing link between neoliberalism and the…
The academics have distanced themselves from the fringes of the right, but their ideas have gained currency there. Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson: a bridge between fringe and mainstream conservatism? Image:…

November 5 2018, 12:50am | Comments
Bookmark Solar Geo-Engineering Can't Save the World’s Crops - The Atlantic
Over the past few years, I’ve heard dozens of scientists talk about solar geo-engineering, the once-outlandish idea that humanity should counteract climate change by releasing special gases into the stratosphere to…

August 9 2018, 1:42am | Comments
Bookmark Sorry Elon Musk, but it's now clear that colonising Mars is unlikely…
Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonising Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an infrastructure to transport millions of people there. This was…

August 7 2018, 6:22pm | Comments
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August 1 2018, 5:13am | Comments
Bookmark You're wrong about how the internet fuels conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule the world, conspiracy…

July 7 2018, 8:32am | 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
Podcast Cache Podcast 13: Imaginary Futures, Media Theory and the Cold War Origins of…
Ideas and Culture with Guts http://www.explodingappendix.com/2018/04/17/podcast-13-imaginary-futures-media-theory-cold-war-origins-internet-interview-richard-barbrook/

April 17 2018, 2:55am | Comments
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April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments
Bookmark Why Feminists Need to Seize the Memes of Production | Novara Media
Culture matters. Mainstream culture reflects and shapes the dominant ideas and behaviours of our society.

April 15 2018, 10:25am | Comments
Bookmark The swiftness of glaciers: language in a time of climate change |…
Language bends and buckles under pressure of climate change. Take the adjective ‘glacial’. I recently came across an old draft of my PhD dissertation on which my advisor had scrawled the…

April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments
Bookmark The Men Who Are Convinced We’re All Living in a Simulation
Dale Baker was introduced to simulation theory five years ago as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa. The idea that our reality may be nothing more than a computer-generated…

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Resisting Reduction Manifesto: against the Singularity, for a "culture of flourishing" /…
Joi Ito's Resisting Reduction manifesto rejects the idea of reducing the world to a series of computable relationships that will eventually be overtaken by our ability to manipulate them with computers…

November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark Resisting Reduction Manifesto: against the Singularity, for a "culture of flourishing" /…
Joi Ito's Resisting Reduction manifesto rejects the idea of reducing the world to a series of computable relationships that will eventually be overtaken by our ability to manipulate them with computers…

November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments
Ask Metafilter 'The hole' in theory and thought I am interested in 'the hole' in its conceptual, metaphorical, and literal crossovers. Who has written about holes? In the ground? In theory? In myth and fiction? I'd be super keen to read theory that cites specific holes found in myth and fiction,…

August 28 2017, 10:44am | Comments
Bookmark Let’s ditch the dangerous idea that life is a story | Aeon…
‘Each of us constructs and lives a “narrative”,’ wrote the British neurologist Oliver Sacks, ‘this narrative is us’. Likewise the American cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner: ‘Self is a perpetually rewritten story.

August 20 2017, 6:44pm | Comments
Bookmark Please Prove You’re Not a Robot - The New York Times
When science fiction writers first imagined robot invasions, the idea was that bots would become smart and powerful enough to take over the world by force, whether on their own or…

July 16 2017, 8:15am | Comments
Bookmark Are We as Doomed as That New York Magazine Article Says? -…
No one knows how to talk about climate change right now. I don’t have an idea about where to begin, and I write about it professionally. On the one hand, the…

July 10 2017, 10:20pm | Comments
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June 20 2017, 11:00pm | Comments

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