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• Metafilter MeFi: Some People Can't See Mental Images - The Consequences Are Profound Aphantasia - an interesting variant in human experience (New Yorker archive link) Nick knew that whenever Zeman talked about aphantasia he was at pains to emphasize that it was not a disorder, or even a bad thing... Some people he interviewed were unbothered—there…

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  Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. Introduction Two years ago, Sarah Shomstein…

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• Syllabus Cache Climate Justice in the Anthropocene: An Introductory Reading List -…

  As the alarm bells have made it urgently clear—humanity has breached planetary boundaries—causing anthropogenic climate change and environmental disaster across the world.

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  Decolonising the Digital: Technology as Cultural Practice is a collection of critical essays, showcases, and interviews by Australian experimental artists, and diverse digital media theorists.

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  A dangerous mix of increasing international conflict, global climate change, and a lack of governmental efforts to fix either could be leading the world to an era of unprecedented destruction.

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  Charles Darwin thought of evolution as an incremental process, like the patient creep of glaciers or the march of continental plates.

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  Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage. The Cloud is not…

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  Isaac Newton apocryphally discovered his second law – the one about gravity – after an apple fell on his head. Much experimentation and data analysis later, he realised there was a…

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  The poor South is being exploited so that the rich North can transition to environmental sustainability. Entire swaths of land are being destroyed to secure the resources needed to produce wind…

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• 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…

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• Bookmark The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans - Scientific American

  Computer-generated imagery is supposed to be one of the success stories of computer science. Starting in the 1970s, the algorithms for realistically depicting digital worlds were developed in a monumental joint…

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  Mass violence motivated by misogyny is repeatedly attributed to mental illness, framed as the act of a lone man driven to snap by his disordered neurology. That’s what happened in Montreal…

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  Yes, that Charles Murray, who in 1994 co-authored “The Bell Curve,” with Richard J. Herrnstein, arguing in two notorious chapters that I.Q. differences between the races were mostly innate and mostly…

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  While technology critics drag technological solutionism in five thousand words or 280 characters, artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain wields solutions against themselves, in the form of objects and installations.

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  For decades, many psychiatrists believed depression was a uniquely western phenomenon. But in the last few years, a new movement has turned this thinking on its head. By When Vikram Patel…

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  Below is a shortened version of Annie Culver’s essay that won Honorable Mention in the 2017 Greene Prize for Environmental Writing. Annie is a PhD student in English at Rice University.

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• Metafilter MeFi: Some People Can't See Mental Images - The Consequences Are Profound Aphantasia - an interesting variant in human experience (New Yorker archive link) Nick knew that whenever Zeman talked about aphantasia he was at pains to emphasize that it was not a disorder, or even a bad thing... Some people he interviewed were unbothered—there…

  November 8 2025, 2:59pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What happens in your mind when you read this paragraph? When I read the very 1st paragraph of this article, I had a series of mini revelations about how my mind works, and perhaps the minds of others. I'd appreciate it if you read it first (just the 1st paragraph), and then came…

  October 12 2025, 7:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Quanta Magazine

  Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. Introduction Two years ago, Sarah Shomstein…

  August 2 2024, 8:28am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Climate Justice in the Anthropocene: An Introductory Reading List -…

  As the alarm bells have made it urgently clear—humanity has breached planetary boundaries—causing anthropogenic climate change and environmental disaster across the world.

  August 3 2023, 11:34am | Comments

• Bookmark AI is the Scariest Beast Ever Created, Says Sci-Fi Writer Bruce Sterling

  I've seen a lot of computer crazes in my day, but this one is sheer Mardi Gras. It's not proper to get stern and judgmental when the people are costumed and…

  July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just…

  It’s hard to keep track of all the overlapping technological, environmental, and political crises to worry about in 2023.

  April 18 2023, 4:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just…

  It’s hard to keep track of all the overlapping technological, environmental, and political crises to worry about in 2023.

  April 18 2023, 12:53am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Decolonising the Digital| Technology as Cultural Practice

  Decolonising the Digital: Technology as Cultural Practice is a collection of critical essays, showcases, and interviews by Australian experimental artists, and diverse digital media theorists.

  December 12 2022, 1:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Experts to World: We’re Doomed

  A dangerous mix of increasing international conflict, global climate change, and a lack of governmental efforts to fix either could be leading the world to an era of unprecedented destruction.

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Experts to World: We’re Doomed

  A dangerous mix of increasing international conflict, global climate change, and a lack of governmental efforts to fix either could be leading the world to an era of unprecedented destruction.

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Working with Zotero: from A to Z

  In this document, you’ll learn many new tips for using Zotero, ranging from the fundamentals to advanced integrations, and discover the myriad ways Zotero can benefit, enhance and streamline your research. This guide was originally compiled for a…

  May 4 2022, 8:33am | Comments

• Bookmark A New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution |…

  Charles Darwin thought of evolution as an incremental process, like the patient creep of glaciers or the march of continental plates.

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud | The MIT…

  Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage. The Cloud is not…

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 4 2022, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science? | Artificial intelligence (AI)…

  Isaac Newton apocryphally discovered his second law – the one about gravity – after an apple fell on his head. Much experimentation and data analysis later, he realised there was a…

  January 10 2022, 3:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Mining the Planet to Death: The Dirty Truth About Clean Technologies -…

  The poor South is being exploited so that the rich North can transition to environmental sustainability. Entire swaths of land are being destroyed to secure the resources needed to produce wind…

  November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 16 2021, 10:00am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup

  April 14 2021, 4:36am | 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 The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans - Scientific American

  Computer-generated imagery is supposed to be one of the success stories of computer science. Starting in the 1970s, the algorithms for realistically depicting digital worlds were developed in a monumental joint…

  December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 17 2020, 10:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Making of an Incel | The Walrus

  Mass violence motivated by misogyny is repeatedly attributed to mental illness, framed as the act of a lone man driven to snap by his disordered neurology. That’s what happened in Montreal…

  September 4 2020, 8:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Charles Murray Returns, Nodding to Caution but Still Courting Controversy - The…

  Yes, that Charles Murray, who in 1994 co-authored “The Bell Curve,” with Richard J. Herrnstein, arguing in two notorious chapters that I.Q. differences between the races were mostly innate and mostly…

  February 15 2020, 6:06am | Comments

• Bookmark Hack the Planet: Tega Brain on Leaks, Glitches, and Preposterous Futures

  While technology critics drag technological solutionism in five thousand words or 280 characters, artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain wields solutions against themselves, in the form of objects and installations.

  February 14 2020, 5:36am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 31 2020, 2:28am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 3 2019, 6:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Busting the myth that depression doesn't affect people in poor countries |…

  For decades, many psychiatrists believed depression was a uniquely western phenomenon. But in the last few years, a new movement has turned this thinking on its head. By When Vikram Patel…

  May 21 2019, 10:58pm | Comments

• YouTube

  January 25 2019, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘It’s Time to Decolonize Environmentalism’: An Interview with Zina Saro-Wiwa | Frieze

  Skip to main content Advertisement More Like This Advertisement More Like This More Interviews See All

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark CENHS @ Rice! » New Materialism, Environmental Justice, and Digital Sites of…

  Below is a shortened version of Annie Culver’s essay that won Honorable Mention in the 2017 Greene Prize for Environmental Writing. Annie is a PhD student in English at Rice University.

  September 4 2018, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Bunker Mentality: Start Preparing for Ecological & Economic Disaster Free Of Corporate…

  Let’s face it: reading stories about the ongoing destruction of planet Earth, the life-sustaining blue marble that all of us – aside from maybe Elon Musk – are permanently trapped on,…

  August 14 2018, 8:41pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 22 2018, 1:39pm | Comments

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