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• Bookmark Asking the Right Questions About AI – Yonatan Zunger – Medium

  In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world. Self-driving cars will keep us alive; social media bubbles…

  February 8 2018, 7:07am | Comments

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  February 7 2018, 12:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Bitcoin mania is hurting PC gamers by pushing up GPU prices -…

  Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin have soared in value over the past year, thanks to continued interest from a range of investors.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 3 2017, 5:09pm | Comments

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

  September 4 2017, 4:34am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | 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

• Bookmark Palmyra and the Political History of Archaeology in Syria: from Colonialists to…

  Archaeology was institutionalized by a reification of the past into governmental branding, such as through images of Palmyra on the national currency, or school textbooks. Although Palmyrans wrote and probably spoke…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | 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

• 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

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Additivism Singularities panel, Transmediale (5th Feb 2017)

  February 16 2017, 2:02am | Comments

• Bookmark We Went to the Weird Reality Symposium To Find The Limits of…

  Evangelists of virtual reality believe it creates the ultimate empathy machine—this idea was wildly contested at the Weird Reality symposium this past October.

  February 10 2017, 5:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Across & Beyond: Transmediale Reader

  February 2 2017, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark A new dating sim highlights the pickup artist's ugly game of seduction…

  The dating sim has been experiencing something of a reexamining of late, finding itself in the broader public eye as iterations upon its core tenants are warped, distorted, and pushed past…

  October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future |…

  Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly familiar and sexy, and imbued with a perversely dystopian allure.

  October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Masters of the Anthropocene Boundary | Generation Anthropocene

  It’s our 50th episode!  To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding whether or not we formally adopt the Anthropocene into the geologic time table.  We…

  October 6 2016, 9:17am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The past just voted against the future.

  

  June 23 2016, 10:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dark Posthumanism: the weird template

  Billions of years in the future, the Time Traveller stands before a dark ocean, beneath a bloated red sun. The beach is dappled with lichen and ice. The huge crabs and…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• YouTube

  May 12 2016, 10:12am | Comments

• Additivism Hyperallergic Interview: “Your Shiny Plastic Future Is a Load of Crap”

  “Your Shiny Plastic Future Is a Load of Crap”: #Additivism interviewed for HyperallergicGretta Louw interviewed us for Hyperallergic:It was hugely important to us that the manifesto undermine the position from which it is situated. We tried to show the limits and contradictions in our…

  February 15 2016, 8:23am | Comments

• Additivism In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally...

  In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site of…

  January 27 2016, 3:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical…

  "Radical ecology" has come to mean a kind of left-wing back-to-the-landism that throws off consumer culture and mass production for a pastoral low-tech lifestyle.

  January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Plastic Age: How it's reshaping rocks, oceans and life | New Scientist

  The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene ONE million…

  October 27 2015, 5:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Nostalgia for Detritus - The Los Angeles Review of Books

  DOUGLAS LAIN’S latest novel depicts an alien invasion set in an alternate near-past where people have been dehumanized by the worn-out specter of consumer-capitalism and electronic media.

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction - The…

  In 1968, Samuel Delany attended the third annual Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

  August 4 2015, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark V. Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Gynocene: The Many Names of Resistance

  In my past postings, I’ve pointed out how the Anthropocene thesis can be roundly criticized for its assorted failings.

  July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Plastic Age: How it's reshaping rocks, oceans and life - environment -…

  The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene ONE million…

  June 11 2015, 2:40am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

  April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments

• Additivism ArtFCity: Speculate, Replicate, Eradicate: The 3D Additivist Manifesto

  Corinna Kirsch over at ArtFCity This week the Internet gave birth to a new manifesto.”The 3D Addivist Manifesto,” a collaborative video-text between artists Morehshin Allahyari and writer Daniel Rourke, explains the tenets of the digital manifesto over a sleek background of a black-and-white printed…

  March 20 2015, 9:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Real Human Being – The New Inquiry

  A collection of essays on the work of Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter attempts to move toward a future beyond white supremacist narratives of human universality.  The past year’s high profile murders…

  March 12 2015, 7:46am | Comments

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• Bookmark Asking the Right Questions About AI – Yonatan Zunger – Medium

  In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world. Self-driving cars will keep us alive; social media bubbles…

  February 8 2018, 7:07am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 7 2018, 12:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Bitcoin mania is hurting PC gamers by pushing up GPU prices -…

  Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin have soared in value over the past year, thanks to continued interest from a range of investors.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 3 2017, 5:09pm | Comments

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

  September 4 2017, 4:34am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | 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

• Bookmark Palmyra and the Political History of Archaeology in Syria: from Colonialists to…

  Archaeology was institutionalized by a reification of the past into governmental branding, such as through images of Palmyra on the national currency, or school textbooks. Although Palmyrans wrote and probably spoke…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | 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

• 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

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Additivism Singularities panel, Transmediale (5th Feb 2017)

  February 16 2017, 2:02am | Comments

• Bookmark We Went to the Weird Reality Symposium To Find The Limits of…

  Evangelists of virtual reality believe it creates the ultimate empathy machine—this idea was wildly contested at the Weird Reality symposium this past October.

  February 10 2017, 5:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Across & Beyond: Transmediale Reader

  February 2 2017, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark A new dating sim highlights the pickup artist's ugly game of seduction…

  The dating sim has been experiencing something of a reexamining of late, finding itself in the broader public eye as iterations upon its core tenants are warped, distorted, and pushed past…

  October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future |…

  Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly familiar and sexy, and imbued with a perversely dystopian allure.

  October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Masters of the Anthropocene Boundary | Generation Anthropocene

  It’s our 50th episode!  To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding whether or not we formally adopt the Anthropocene into the geologic time table.  We…

  October 6 2016, 9:17am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The past just voted against the future.

  

  June 23 2016, 10:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dark Posthumanism: the weird template

  Billions of years in the future, the Time Traveller stands before a dark ocean, beneath a bloated red sun. The beach is dappled with lichen and ice. The huge crabs and…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• YouTube

  May 12 2016, 10:12am | Comments

• Additivism Hyperallergic Interview: “Your Shiny Plastic Future Is a Load of Crap”

  “Your Shiny Plastic Future Is a Load of Crap”: #Additivism interviewed for HyperallergicGretta Louw interviewed us for Hyperallergic:It was hugely important to us that the manifesto undermine the position from which it is situated. We tried to show the limits and contradictions in our…

  February 15 2016, 8:23am | Comments

• Additivism In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally...

  In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site of…

  January 27 2016, 3:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical…

  "Radical ecology" has come to mean a kind of left-wing back-to-the-landism that throws off consumer culture and mass production for a pastoral low-tech lifestyle.

  January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Plastic Age: How it's reshaping rocks, oceans and life | New Scientist

  The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene ONE million…

  October 27 2015, 5:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Nostalgia for Detritus - The Los Angeles Review of Books

  DOUGLAS LAIN’S latest novel depicts an alien invasion set in an alternate near-past where people have been dehumanized by the worn-out specter of consumer-capitalism and electronic media.

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction - The…

  In 1968, Samuel Delany attended the third annual Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

  August 4 2015, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark V. Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Gynocene: The Many Names of Resistance

  In my past postings, I’ve pointed out how the Anthropocene thesis can be roundly criticized for its assorted failings.

  July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Plastic Age: How it's reshaping rocks, oceans and life - environment -…

  The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene ONE million…

  June 11 2015, 2:40am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

  April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments

• Additivism ArtFCity: Speculate, Replicate, Eradicate: The 3D Additivist Manifesto

  Corinna Kirsch over at ArtFCity This week the Internet gave birth to a new manifesto.”The 3D Addivist Manifesto,” a collaborative video-text between artists Morehshin Allahyari and writer Daniel Rourke, explains the tenets of the digital manifesto over a sleek background of a black-and-white printed…

  March 20 2015, 9:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Real Human Being – The New Inquiry

  A collection of essays on the work of Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter attempts to move toward a future beyond white supremacist narratives of human universality.  The past year’s high profile murders…

  March 12 2015, 7:46am | Comments

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