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Bookmark What The Media Missed At The Jordan Peterson–Slavoj Žižek Debate
As soon as Jordan Peterson announced he would be debating Slavoj Žižek, the hype machine started revving. The media promised a “rumble in the realm of the mind,” a “brawl between…

May 21 2019, 10:58pm | Comments
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“The thought that I had lost my mind calmed me down.”

May 1 2019, 3:24am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Songs where the singer refers to their own name (and are called Steve) I have long admired the line in Stevie Wonder's 'Please Don't Go' where he sings: "Baby, please don't leave, don't leave Steve." I recently came across a song by Steve Monite, 'Only You', where he refers to himself (Steve) a lot, and it…

February 27 2019, 4:05am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant…
What does it mean to be alive right now? Right now. Right this second, right this epoch, as mankind alters the Earth beyond recognition.

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem | The New Yorker
The science-fiction writer and futurist Stanisław Lem was well acquainted with the way that fictional worlds can sometimes encroach upon reality.

January 26 2019, 6:56pm | Comments
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The Steampunk Transhumanists who want their minds uploaded into Analytical Engines

July 31 2018, 7:13am | Comments
Bookmark Google Assistant fired a gun: We need to talk
For better or worse, Google Assistant can do it all. From mundane tasks like turning on your lights and setting reminders to convincingly mimicking human speech patterns, the AI helper is…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark The macabre world of mind-controlling parasites – Science & research news |…
The gruesome new field of neuro-parasitology could provide insights into the neurological basis for behavior and decision-making — By Conn Hastings Imagine a parasite that makes an animal change its habits,…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon
The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark Why the Western philosophical canon is xenophobic and racist | Aeon Essays
Mainstream philosophy in the so-called West is narrow-minded, unimaginative, and even xenophobic. I know I am levelling a serious charge.

November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark Why the Western philosophical canon is xenophobic and racist | Aeon Essays
Mainstream philosophy in the so-called West is narrow-minded, unimaginative, and even xenophobic. I know I am levelling a serious charge.

November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds | The New Yorker
In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note…

October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments
Bookmark Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science…
Star Trek was one way of dealing with the social anxieties of the 1960s. Since sci-fi mirrors the present, ecological collapse requires a new dystopian fiction Build an imaginary world in…

September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Bookmark The Thoughts of a Spiderweb | Quanta Magazine
Millions of years ago, a few spiders abandoned the kind of round webs that the word “spiderweb” calls to mind and started to focus on a new strategy. Before, they would…

September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark Amia Srinivasan reviews ‘Other Minds’ by Peter Godfrey-Smith and ‘The Soul of…
In 1815, 15 years before he made his most famous print, The Great Wave, Hokusai published three volumes of erotic art. In one of them there is a woodcut print known…

September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments
Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments
Furtherfield Contributions The New Observatory at FACT

July 13 2017, 7:28am | Comments
Bookmark Collective Cuts: Introducing the Age of Collage | AnOther
“I use bits and pieces of others’ personalities to form my own,” Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain once wrote, wisely demonstrating that cutting and pasting from pop culture always makes for more…

June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Facebook Cache list: the underground
I need your suggestion, you wise and brilliant minds! I'm preparing a talk about all things underground (nuclear, drilling, mining, data archive in salt mines, etc) for #res17 anyone knows of artworks dealing with the topic?

April 15 2017, 4:55am | Comments
Bookmark The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction
Science fiction tells us that a change in a past event, caused by the intervention of a time traveler, will open up a parallel timeline that leads to an alternate present.…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Are Soas students right to ‘decolonise’ their minds from western philosophers? |…
Outraged headlines erupted when students launched a campaign to challenge the great western philosophers. We went to the source of dissent – London’s School of Oriental and African Studies – to…

March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments
Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments
Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments
Instagram Thanks #Berlin and #Transmediale. Thanks all. See you again soon.

February 7 2017, 12:33am | Comments
Bookmark 3D-Printing an Army of Forgotten Goddesses to Fight Colonialism
When we think of powerful goddesses, the names of Athena, Artemis, Isis, or Kali may come to mind. Much less known, however, particularly to the Western world, are the names of…

December 27 2016, 10:09am | Comments
Bookmark Beyond humans, what other kinds of minds might be out there? |…
In 1984, the philosopher Aaron Sloman invited scholars to describe ‘the space of possible minds’. Sloman’s phrase alludes to the fact that human minds, in all their variety, are not the…

October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments
Bookmark The Silicon Valley billionaires who want to live forever - The i…
Throughout history, the world’s greatest minds have been obsessed with immortality. The scientists and entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley are no exception “I’ve already lowered my biological age and upgraded my IQ,”…

September 28 2016, 11:28am | Comments
Bookmark Which decisions should we leave to algorithms? | Aeon Essays
In central London this spring, eight of the world’s greatest minds performed on a dimly lit stage in a wood-panelled theatre. An audience of hundreds watched in hushed reverence.

July 15 2016, 9:56am | Comments
Additivism More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species Into the Unknown

April 16 2016, 9:36am | Comments
Bookmark AlphaGo, Lee Sedol, and the Reassuring Future of Humans and Machines -…
Midway through the first of five recent matches between Lee Sedol, a top-ranked professional Go player, and AlphaGo, a computer program conceived by Google DeepMind, an odd thing happened: Lee’s jaw…

March 16 2016, 12:07am | Comments
Bookmark How western art collectors are helping to fund Isis
The appetite for antiquities from the Middle East is being met by Isis, who are looting ancient sites with the market in mind. It’s imperative that this demand – from the…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
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January 27 2016, 9:58am | Comments

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