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  Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays On and Around the Alt-Right.

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• Ask Metafilter the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come…

  March 14 2024, 1:38pm | Comments

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  It is estimated that one language dies every 14 days, with it a world of concepts and ideas that could only be expressed in its words. Most of the languages at…

  February 19 2024, 4:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way…

  For a manifesto to succeed, it must speak to our hearts like a poem while infecting the mind with images and ideas that are dazzlingly new.

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• Metafilter MeFi: Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator, and other deliberately crap games Guardian: 'The annual CGC (Crap Games Competition) has been bringing Spectrum fans together for more than 25 years' ... "What makes the CGC entertaining is the self-deprecating, sardonic British humour," explains 43-year-old Paul Collins from Reading, who first entered the CGC in 2000…

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• Bookmark Lapedo Child: A Neanderthal, modern human hybrid? - BBC Reel

  Big ideas reflecting our evolution and what makes us intrinsically human.

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• Bookmark Lapedo Child: A Neanderthal, modern human hybrid? - BBC Reel

  Big ideas reflecting our evolution and what makes us intrinsically human.

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• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

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• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

  July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries ❧ Current Affairs

  Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays On and Around the Alt-Right.

  June 3 2022, 1:51am | Comments

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• Bookmark Neanderthals helped create early human art, researcher says | Archaeology | The…

  When Neanderthals, Denisovans and homo sapiens met one another 50,000 years ago, these archaic and modern humans not only interbred during the thousands of years in which they overlapped, but they…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | 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 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…

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• 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

• 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:…

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• 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/

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• 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

• 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,…

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• Bookmark How philosophy came to disdain the wisdom of oral cultures | Aeon…

  A poet, somewhere in Siberia, or the Balkans, or West Africa, some time in the past 60,000 years, recites thousands of memorised lines in the course of an evening. The lines…

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• Bookmark Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene | Aeon Ideas

  Human-level intelligence is familiar in biological hardware – you’re using it now. Science and technology seem to be converging, from several directions, on the possibility of similar intelligence in non-biological systems.

  October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Artist Profile: Lorna Mills | Rhizome

  Paul Soulellis: Your recent work takes the form of animated GIF collages that convulse with explosions, weird animals and jerky gestures—scenes that are usually playful but often perverse. Most of it…

  September 29 2016, 7:40am | Comments

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  Imagine you’re moving apartments and shopping for new furniture at a couple of stores. You see a couch you like, but you’re not sure, so you leave thinking maybe you’ll return…

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• Bookmark The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries

  Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays On and Around the Alt-Right.

  August 14 2024, 8:27am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come…

  March 14 2024, 1:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark AI and Indigenous Languages

  It is estimated that one language dies every 14 days, with it a world of concepts and ideas that could only be expressed in its words. Most of the languages at…

  February 19 2024, 4:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way…

  For a manifesto to succeed, it must speak to our hearts like a poem while infecting the mind with images and ideas that are dazzlingly new.

  November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator, and other deliberately crap games Guardian: 'The annual CGC (Crap Games Competition) has been bringing Spectrum fans together for more than 25 years' ... "What makes the CGC entertaining is the self-deprecating, sardonic British humour," explains 43-year-old Paul Collins from Reading, who first entered the CGC in 2000…

  July 6 2023, 11:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark Lapedo Child: A Neanderthal, modern human hybrid? - BBC Reel

  Big ideas reflecting our evolution and what makes us intrinsically human.

  April 18 2023, 4:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Lapedo Child: A Neanderthal, modern human hybrid? - BBC Reel

  Big ideas reflecting our evolution and what makes us intrinsically human.

  April 18 2023, 12:53am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 3 2022, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

  July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

  July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries ❧ Current Affairs

  Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays On and Around the Alt-Right.

  June 3 2022, 1:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 7 2022, 8:43am | Comments

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  February 4 2022, 10:00am | Comments

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  January 21 2022, 9:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals helped create early human art, researcher says | Archaeology | The…

  When Neanderthals, Denisovans and homo sapiens met one another 50,000 years ago, these archaic and modern humans not only interbred during the thousands of years in which they overlapped, but they…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | 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 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

• 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

• 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

• Vimeo

  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

• 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 How philosophy came to disdain the wisdom of oral cultures | Aeon…

  A poet, somewhere in Siberia, or the Balkans, or West Africa, some time in the past 60,000 years, recites thousands of memorised lines in the course of an evening. The lines…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• Instagram Thanks #Berlin and #Transmediale. Thanks all. See you again soon.

  February 7 2017, 12:33am | Comments

• Projects HOLO 2: Results May Vary (contribution)

  December 9 2016, 2:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene | Aeon Ideas

  Human-level intelligence is familiar in biological hardware – you’re using it now. Science and technology seem to be converging, from several directions, on the possibility of similar intelligence in non-biological systems.

  October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark Artist Profile: Lorna Mills | Rhizome

  Paul Soulellis: Your recent work takes the form of animated GIF collages that convulse with explosions, weird animals and jerky gestures—scenes that are usually playful but often perverse. Most of it…

  September 29 2016, 7:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Your Data Footprint Is Affecting Your Life In Ways You Can't Even…

  Imagine you’re moving apartments and shopping for new furniture at a couple of stores. You see a couch you like, but you’re not sure, so you leave thinking maybe you’ll return…

  September 14 2016, 7:51am | Comments

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