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Bookmark The Goopification of AI - The Atlantic
Late one recent night, I enlisted GPT-4 to fix my life. I began by soliciting broad-strokes summaries of my journalistic interests and an expedited five-step protocol for breaking in raw-denim jeans…

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Critical reviews/writing on Tears of the Kingdom So, we all love the latest Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom - TOTK), and so do the critics. But now that we and the game journalists all have hundreds of hours of playtime under our belts, have any thoughtful, well written critical…

June 12 2023, 6:21am | Comments
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June 27 2022, 2:33am | Comments
Bookmark Personal Entropy - Journal #126 April 2022 - e-flux
Recently I began realizing that my perception of the world is beginning to change in a peculiar way. There are no longer distinctions between more and less important themes or work;…

June 3 2022, 5:53am | Comments
Bookmark Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology…
This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, which was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the full…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Personal Entropy - Journal #126 April 2022 - e-flux
Recently I began realizing that my perception of the world is beginning to change in a peculiar way. There are no longer distinctions between more and less important themes or work;…

June 3 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology…
This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, which was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the full…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Operational Images - Journal #59 November 2014 - e-flux
Something new was happening in the world of images, something that the theoretical tools of visual studies and art history couldn’t account for: the machines were starting to see for themselves.

April 11 2022, 12:51am | Comments
Bookmark Xenofeminism: A Framework to Hack the Human| New Proposals: Journal of Marxism…
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February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
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February 14 2022, 4:00am | Comments
Bookmark All the right words on climate have already been said » Nieman…
Sometime last week, an editor who semi-ghosted me on an article I wrote several months ago texted me saying she wanted to talk. I didn’t want to talk to her because…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Media Fields Journal - Lithium Landscapes
Figure 1. Satellite image of the Salar de Atacama. (Source and copyright: USGS) From space, the lithium fields of the Salar de Atacama in Chile appear like a multi-colored mosaic or…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Vol. 30 No. 61-62 (2021): The Changing Ontology of the…
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July 5 2021, 2:36am | Comments
Syllabus Cache The Changing Ontology of the Image | The Nordic Journal…
Traditionally we think of images as relatively individualized or delimited phenomena that, in one way or the other, appear to the human mind and apparatus of perception. Currently, however, we are witnessing an intensification of what we might…

July 4 2021, 10:36pm | Comments
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September 11 2020, 1:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Revolution or Ruin - Journal #110 June 2020 - e-flux
We know how the first paragraph begins. We’ve read about the changing climate for over twenty years, infrequently at first and then daily until we couldn’t deny it any longer. The…

June 30 2020, 7:13pm | Comments
Bookmark The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future…
Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague…

May 17 2020, 8:23am | Comments
Bookmark The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future…
Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague…

May 17 2020, 1:23am | Comments
Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…
Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

November 13 2019, 5:17pm | Comments
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October 8 2019, 7:00am | Comments
Bookmark An Archaeologist Writes against the Anthropocene | Open Rivers Journal
Much of what archaeologists do is study how humans adapt to the environment. After Gordon Willey’s (1953) groundbreaking investigation into the entire history of occupation of a small valley in Peru,…

August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments
Bookmark Why HBO's "Chernobyl" Gets Nuclear So Wrong
Since the start of HBO’s mini-series about the 1986 nuclear disaster, “Chernobyl,” journalists have praised the series for getting the facts of the event right, even if its creators took some…

June 10 2019, 5:44pm | Comments
Bookmark If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascisms…
Is art a currency? Investor Stefan Simchowitz thinks so. He wrote with uncompromising clarity about the post-Brexit era: “Art will effectively continue its structural function as an alternative currency that hedges…

December 12 2018, 11:49am | Comments
Bookmark To Save a World: Geoengineering, Conflictual Futurisms, and the Unthinkable - Journal…
The Anthropocene is proving to be an era of world war, or rather, worlds at war. Not that this is anything new.

October 25 2018, 4:46am | Comments
Bookmark The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine -…
A biologist enters mysterious territory on a mission to comprehend the incomprehensible. Together with three colleagues—an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor—she crosses an imperceptible border into a region known as…

June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments
Bookmark We Are All Aliens - Journal #91 May 2018 - e-flux
You’re on the Spaceship Earth […] You’d better pay your fare now You’ll be left behind You’ll be left hangin’ In the empty air You won’t be here and you won’t…

May 24 2018, 3:47am | Comments
Bookmark Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism - Frontpage - e-flux conversations
In the current issue of Salvage journal, Sølvi Goard uses Ghost in the Shell as an entry point for a discussion of how capitalism shapes bodies, especially trans bodies.

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
Bookmark Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil - Journal #84 September 2017…
People think that they sell oil, but in fact they are becoming oil. —Victor Pelevin

September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Bookmark Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed,…
There is no doubt that Sci-Hub, the infamous—and, according to a U.S. court, illegal—online repository of pirated research papers, is enormously popular. (See Science’s investigation last year of who is downloading…

July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments
Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments
Bookmark The Uproar Over ‘Transracialism’
The world of academic philosophy is ordinarily a rather esoteric one. But Rebecca Tuvel’s article “In Defense of Transracialism,” published in the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia this spring, has generated a…

June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments

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