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  My new project is bound to involve slime

  

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• Bookmark Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | by Pankaj Mishra | NYR Daily |…

  “Men have to toughen up,” Jordan B. Peterson writes in 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, “Men demand it, and women want it.” So, the first rule is, “Stand…

  June 1 2018, 8:52am | 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

• Bookmark Why it’s so unhelpful to talk about the male or female brain…

  How many times did I say it – to myself, out loud alone or out loud to others, throughout my childhood? ‘I wish I were a boy.’ The words were mine,…

  May 13 2018, 6:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Leaving Herland | The Point Magazine

  But even after I overcame my instinct for detachment, I remained wary of the movement’s language, which was a language of binaries: women and men.

  April 30 2018, 4:24am | Comments

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  My tweets are an endless love letter to the deepest darkest posthuman future

  

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• 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 What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

  My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of…

  March 19 2018, 12:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Decolonising Science Reading List – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – Medium

  Thank me for my free labor maintaining this list by making a donation to The Offing via Paypal, Crowdrise, or a monthly donation at Patreon.

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Annihilation and How the Movie Understands Depression

  Let’s talk about what it means to destroy yourself. In the relatively short time I’ve been alive, I have made an art out of self-destruction. I’ve placed myself in frightening situations…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Stuff That Came Between Mom and Me: A Story About Hoarding

  I lived in Atlanta for six years after college. I only went back to St. Pete twice in that time, and both times I stayed with my aunt Linda. Mom would…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | 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

• Syllabus Cache How to Pay Attention

  Finally sharing the syllabus for this year's iteration of my anthro seminar, "How to Pay Attention": https://nick-seaver.squarespace.com/s/HTPA-syllabus-22.

  February 1 2018, 9:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Engineered for Dystopia | David A. Banks

  Some of the first people to be called “engineers” operated siege engines. A siege engine is a very old device used to tear down the walls of an enemy city.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

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  "I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale."

  

  November 26 2017, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Why We Need to Challenge the Culture of Monogamy - VICE

  As someone who identifies as poly, I've often experienced negativity from those who don't think outside of how their relationships function. At times, this judgment has come from those close to…

  November 26 2017, 7:31am | Comments

• Bookmark What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance? |…

  The parallel between Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and CCTV may be clear, but what happens when you step into the world of data capture? The philosopher Jeremy Bentham famously requested in his…

  November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark How Squids Communicate

  Cephalopods loom large in our cultural mythos.

  November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments

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  November 22 2017, 12:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why We Need to Challenge the Culture of Monogamy - VICE

  As someone who identifies as poly, I've often experienced negativity from those who don't think outside of how their relationships function. At times, this judgment has come from those close to…

  November 20 2017, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance? |…

  The parallel between Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and CCTV may be clear, but what happens when you step into the world of data capture? The philosopher Jeremy Bentham famously requested in his…

  November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments

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  November 14 2017, 8:44am | Comments

• Bookmark What the Sphinx and Alien Have in Common

  I was 13 years old when the movie Alien was released. It scared me into a month-long spell of anxiety. The hair on the back of my neck was perpetually up…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark What constitutes an individual organism in biology? | Aeon Essays

  When she was two years old, I took my daughter to the American Museum of Natural History for the first time. As we strolled through the displays of taxidermy animals, she…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

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  October 16 2017, 4:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why women prefer erotic GIFs to steamy pornography videos - Sex Relationships

  In the midst of an animated chat on a WhatsApp group recently, a friend took us by surprise with the casual mention of porn GIFs. "Have you seen it?" she asked.

  September 26 2017, 5:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race | World…

  On 22 February 2014, I published a post on my blog. I titled it “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race”. It read: “I’m no longer engaging with…

  September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark My father’s hoarding inspired me to change other people’s lives | Life…

  The job of clearing out her father’s house after his death led Jo Cooke to discover more about his childhood in Poland and strange behaviour – a process that helped her…

  September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments

• Additivism Sight + Sound Festival - Eastern Bloc, Montreal (exhibition)

  September 4 2017, 4:34am | Comments

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• Twitter

  My new project is bound to involve slime

  

  June 9 2018, 9:45am | Comments

• Twitter

  YOU EXPLORE MY LIKES.

  

  June 1 2018, 4:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | by Pankaj Mishra | NYR Daily |…

  “Men have to toughen up,” Jordan B. Peterson writes in 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, “Men demand it, and women want it.” So, the first rule is, “Stand…

  June 1 2018, 8:52am | 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

• Bookmark Why it’s so unhelpful to talk about the male or female brain…

  How many times did I say it – to myself, out loud alone or out loud to others, throughout my childhood? ‘I wish I were a boy.’ The words were mine,…

  May 13 2018, 6:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Leaving Herland | The Point Magazine

  But even after I overcame my instinct for detachment, I remained wary of the movement’s language, which was a language of binaries: women and men.

  April 30 2018, 4:24am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments

• Twitter

  My tweets are an endless love letter to the deepest darkest posthuman future

  

  April 14 2018, 5:50am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 6 2018, 6:00pm | 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 What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

  My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of…

  March 19 2018, 12:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Decolonising Science Reading List – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – Medium

  Thank me for my free labor maintaining this list by making a donation to The Offing via Paypal, Crowdrise, or a monthly donation at Patreon.

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Annihilation and How the Movie Understands Depression

  Let’s talk about what it means to destroy yourself. In the relatively short time I’ve been alive, I have made an art out of self-destruction. I’ve placed myself in frightening situations…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Stuff That Came Between Mom and Me: A Story About Hoarding

  I lived in Atlanta for six years after college. I only went back to St. Pete twice in that time, and both times I stayed with my aunt Linda. Mom would…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | 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

• Syllabus Cache How to Pay Attention

  Finally sharing the syllabus for this year's iteration of my anthro seminar, "How to Pay Attention": https://nick-seaver.squarespace.com/s/HTPA-syllabus-22.

  February 1 2018, 9:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Engineered for Dystopia | David A. Banks

  Some of the first people to be called “engineers” operated siege engines. A siege engine is a very old device used to tear down the walls of an enemy city.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale."

  

  November 26 2017, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Why We Need to Challenge the Culture of Monogamy - VICE

  As someone who identifies as poly, I've often experienced negativity from those who don't think outside of how their relationships function. At times, this judgment has come from those close to…

  November 26 2017, 7:31am | Comments

• Bookmark What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance? |…

  The parallel between Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and CCTV may be clear, but what happens when you step into the world of data capture? The philosopher Jeremy Bentham famously requested in his…

  November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark How Squids Communicate

  Cephalopods loom large in our cultural mythos.

  November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 22 2017, 12:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why We Need to Challenge the Culture of Monogamy - VICE

  As someone who identifies as poly, I've often experienced negativity from those who don't think outside of how their relationships function. At times, this judgment has come from those close to…

  November 20 2017, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance? |…

  The parallel between Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and CCTV may be clear, but what happens when you step into the world of data capture? The philosopher Jeremy Bentham famously requested in his…

  November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 14 2017, 8:44am | Comments

• Bookmark What the Sphinx and Alien Have in Common

  I was 13 years old when the movie Alien was released. It scared me into a month-long spell of anxiety. The hair on the back of my neck was perpetually up…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark What constitutes an individual organism in biology? | Aeon Essays

  When she was two years old, I took my daughter to the American Museum of Natural History for the first time. As we strolled through the displays of taxidermy animals, she…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 16 2017, 4:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why women prefer erotic GIFs to steamy pornography videos - Sex Relationships

  In the midst of an animated chat on a WhatsApp group recently, a friend took us by surprise with the casual mention of porn GIFs. "Have you seen it?" she asked.

  September 26 2017, 5:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race | World…

  On 22 February 2014, I published a post on my blog. I titled it “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race”. It read: “I’m no longer engaging with…

  September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark My father’s hoarding inspired me to change other people’s lives | Life…

  The job of clearing out her father’s house after his death led Jo Cooke to discover more about his childhood in Poland and strange behaviour – a process that helped her…

  September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments

• Additivism Sight + Sound Festival - Eastern Bloc, Montreal (exhibition)

  September 4 2017, 4:34am | Comments

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