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• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

  April 1 2020, 4:53pm | 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

• Bookmark The Posthuman Enlightenment | Public Books

  What does it take to think beyond the human? Can we imagine our human selves in other lives? And should we? While contemporary answers to these questions have highlighted the desirability…

  February 12 2020, 10:16am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

  December 2 2019, 7:30am | Comments

• Instagram Close-up of the most #PostInternet section of the #ImageNet dataset

  October 18 2019, 6:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Science Fiction and Posthumanism – Critical Posthumanism Network

  Donna Haraway famously pronounced, “the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion” in her influential A Cyborg Manifesto.

  October 14 2019, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Hong Kong winner of John W. Campbell sci-fi award stands by ‘fascist’…

  Hong Kong science fiction author Jeannette Ng became the city’s first to receive the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer last Sunday in Dublin, Ireland, but not without calling…

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Links and Resources for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers |…

  Useful Resources for F&SF; Writers: Awards Posts for F&SF; Writers Book Recommendations for F&SF; Writers: Craft Essays for F&SF; Writers Career-focused Essays for F&SF; Writers Story Prompts for F&SF; Writers #sfwapro

  September 2 2019, 7:59am | Comments

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• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

  August 8 2019, 5:56am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache History of Computing Timeline

  As part of a series of posts that I’ve been calling “Open Source PhD,” I’m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for…

  July 27 2019, 4:56pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Too Human — Real Life

  As I was being wheeled out of the post-anesthesia care unit at Mount Sinai, three incisions across my abdomen freshly glued shut and fentanyl warm in my veins, a nurse bustled…

  May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ways to Defy the Pressure to Perform :: Why is everybody being…

  A pamphlet for the exhibition Sheffield 08: Yes No and Other Options How can we address the current changes in our societies and lives? Some say that we have come to…

  April 17 2019, 7:21am | Comments

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  February 8 2019, 6:24am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Collapse: A reading list

  This post is a list of essays and articles covering climate and ecological breakdown from various perspectives, including how these overlapping crises may induce collapse of industrial civilisation as we know it. This is companion piece to my…

  January 28 2019, 9:37am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Episode #16 Mark O'Connell on Posthumanists and Preppers - Field Day

  Posthumanists and preppers are driven by anxiety about the end - of life, and of civilization. Mark O'Connell connects the dots. https://fieldday.ie/on-posthumanism-and-preppers-with-mark-oconnell/

  December 27 2018, 5:17am | 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 Technological and Posthuman Zones – Critical Posthumanism

  Modern technology seems always to have been judged according to its utility for human beings. To the extent that technologies have been viewed as tools, instruments, or prostheses for human use,…

  November 30 2018, 3:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Google and Facebook Didn't End Data Privacy - The Atlantic

  A barista gets burned at work, buys first-aid cream at Target, and later that day sees a Facebook ad for the same product. In another Target, someone shouts down the aisle…

  August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments

• Bookmark How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and…

  I recently created a thread that on Twitter regarding the lower-bound estimates for how much electricity the Bitcoin blockchain consumed using publicly available numbers. The first part of this post is…

  August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Why memes matter: our best shot to talk about the world in…

  We have entered a post-truth, post-authenticity era, in which dichotomies like true/false or real/fake no longer serve us very well, especially on social media platforms.

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Instagram In Portuguese, ‘atropelar’ is the act of running over something or someone - often in…

  June 30 2018, 10:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Plastic plankton, the Anthropocene’s emblematic “microorganism” – We Make Money Not Art

  Mandy Barker, Ophelia medustica. Specimen collected from Glounthaune shoreline, Cove of Cork, Ireland, (Pram wheel), 2015. Series: Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals, 2015 In 1816, John Vaughan Thompson was posted to…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

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  May 22 2018, 1:39pm | 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 Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From? | The New…

  After three record-breaking hurricanes hammered America last year, the influential spiritual healer Heather Askinosie wrote a blog post for the Earth.

  May 13 2018, 6:17am | Comments

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  April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Hito Steyerl | Politics of Post-Representation «DIS Magazine

  From the militarization of social media to the corporatization of the art world, Hito Steyerl’s writings represent some of the most influential bodies of work in contemporary cultural criticism today.

  April 14 2018, 5:54am | Comments

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

  

  April 14 2018, 5:50am | Comments

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• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

  April 1 2020, 4:53pm | 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

• Bookmark The Posthuman Enlightenment | Public Books

  What does it take to think beyond the human? Can we imagine our human selves in other lives? And should we? While contemporary answers to these questions have highlighted the desirability…

  February 12 2020, 10:16am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

  December 2 2019, 7:30am | Comments

• Instagram Close-up of the most #PostInternet section of the #ImageNet dataset

  October 18 2019, 6:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Science Fiction and Posthumanism – Critical Posthumanism Network

  Donna Haraway famously pronounced, “the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion” in her influential A Cyborg Manifesto.

  October 14 2019, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Hong Kong winner of John W. Campbell sci-fi award stands by ‘fascist’…

  Hong Kong science fiction author Jeannette Ng became the city’s first to receive the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer last Sunday in Dublin, Ireland, but not without calling…

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Links and Resources for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers |…

  Useful Resources for F&SF; Writers: Awards Posts for F&SF; Writers Book Recommendations for F&SF; Writers: Craft Essays for F&SF; Writers Career-focused Essays for F&SF; Writers Story Prompts for F&SF; Writers #sfwapro

  September 2 2019, 7:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 1 2019, 5:30am | Comments

• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

  August 8 2019, 5:56am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache History of Computing Timeline

  As part of a series of posts that I’ve been calling “Open Source PhD,” I’m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for…

  July 27 2019, 4:56pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 8 2019, 7:00pm | Comments

• YouTube

  June 15 2019, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Too Human — Real Life

  As I was being wheeled out of the post-anesthesia care unit at Mount Sinai, three incisions across my abdomen freshly glued shut and fentanyl warm in my veins, a nurse bustled…

  May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ways to Defy the Pressure to Perform :: Why is everybody being…

  A pamphlet for the exhibition Sheffield 08: Yes No and Other Options How can we address the current changes in our societies and lives? Some say that we have come to…

  April 17 2019, 7:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 8 2019, 6:24am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Collapse: A reading list

  This post is a list of essays and articles covering climate and ecological breakdown from various perspectives, including how these overlapping crises may induce collapse of industrial civilisation as we know it. This is companion piece to my…

  January 28 2019, 9:37am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Episode #16 Mark O'Connell on Posthumanists and Preppers - Field Day

  Posthumanists and preppers are driven by anxiety about the end - of life, and of civilization. Mark O'Connell connects the dots. https://fieldday.ie/on-posthumanism-and-preppers-with-mark-oconnell/

  December 27 2018, 5:17am | 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 Technological and Posthuman Zones – Critical Posthumanism

  Modern technology seems always to have been judged according to its utility for human beings. To the extent that technologies have been viewed as tools, instruments, or prostheses for human use,…

  November 30 2018, 3:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Google and Facebook Didn't End Data Privacy - The Atlantic

  A barista gets burned at work, buys first-aid cream at Target, and later that day sees a Facebook ad for the same product. In another Target, someone shouts down the aisle…

  August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments

• Bookmark How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and…

  I recently created a thread that on Twitter regarding the lower-bound estimates for how much electricity the Bitcoin blockchain consumed using publicly available numbers. The first part of this post is…

  August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Why memes matter: our best shot to talk about the world in…

  We have entered a post-truth, post-authenticity era, in which dichotomies like true/false or real/fake no longer serve us very well, especially on social media platforms.

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Instagram In Portuguese, ‘atropelar’ is the act of running over something or someone - often in…

  June 30 2018, 10:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Plastic plankton, the Anthropocene’s emblematic “microorganism” – We Make Money Not Art

  Mandy Barker, Ophelia medustica. Specimen collected from Glounthaune shoreline, Cove of Cork, Ireland, (Pram wheel), 2015. Series: Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals, 2015 In 1816, John Vaughan Thompson was posted to…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 22 2018, 1:39pm | 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 Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From? | The New…

  After three record-breaking hurricanes hammered America last year, the influential spiritual healer Heather Askinosie wrote a blog post for the Earth.

  May 13 2018, 6:17am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Hito Steyerl | Politics of Post-Representation «DIS Magazine

  From the militarization of social media to the corporatization of the art world, Hito Steyerl’s writings represent some of the most influential bodies of work in contemporary cultural criticism today.

  April 14 2018, 5:54am | Comments

• Twitter

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

  

  April 14 2018, 5:50am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 12 2018, 12:31pm | Comments

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