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• 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

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

  June 30 2018, 10:02am | 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

• 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 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

• Bookmark Neanderthals went extinct, but many of us still carry around fragments of…

  Up to about 100,000 years ago, our human ancestors coexisted with Neanderthals in Europe and interbred with them for thousands of years. The Neanderthals eventually went extinct, but many of us…

  November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments

• Portfolio NXS Issue #2 Synthetic Selves

  November 10 2017, 7:18am | Comments

• Bookmark ABOLISH BORDERS as Revolutionary Futurity | Art Practical

  To witness revolutionary futurity—the belief that social transformation is possible, and begins with a transcendence of the self—in a public space that fosters genuine politics, drive up San Francisco’s 24th Street…

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | 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 The Uproar Over ‘Transracialism’

  The world of academic philosophy is ordinarily a rather esoteric one. But Rebecca Tuvel’s article “In Defense of Transracialism,” published in the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia this spring, has generated a…

  June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Things That Anarchists Say to Me in Private But Never Repeat Publicly…

  Can you relate? 2) “As a white person, if I don't automatically agree with whichever person of color is directly in front of me, I run the risk of being labelled…

  April 9 2017, 2:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Books after the Death of the Book | Public Books

  Last summer I decided to assign Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects in the graduate course I was getting ready to teach.

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Twenty Theses on Posthumanism, Political Affect, and Proliferation | Public Seminar

  The human is always already posthuman. The human is the animal that relies on technology in order to realize its humanity. The “post-human” is thus an ontological category, more than a…

  March 11 2017, 7:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark What News-Writing Bots Mean for the Future of Journalism | WIRED

  This story is part of our special coverage, The News in Crisis. When Republican Steve King beat back Democratic challenger Kim Weaver in the race for Iowa’s 4th congressional district seat…

  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

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  February 18 2017, 7:19pm | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Design+Media Theory | Public Seminar

  Our focus will be on key thinkers across the fields of media, design and technology. The course starts our everyday experience of designed and  mediated environments, whether as creators or regular users (1-3).

  December 30 2016, 9:09am | Comments

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  November 21 2016, 1:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Perils of Peak Attention | New Republic

  “I am alarmed,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in “Walking,” his 1862 essay, “when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.” The…

  November 4 2016, 7:07am | 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

• 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

• Bookmark Sorry David Attenborough, We Didn't Evolve from "Aquatic Apes"--Here's Why - Scientific…

  The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Occasionally in science there are theories that refuse to die despite the overwhelming evidence…

  September 28 2016, 1:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The Dark Web Is Mostly Full of Garbage

  The dark web—the portion of the deep web only accessible through specific software—exists to serve the needs of hackers-for-hire, hitmen, internet drug kingpins, child pornographers, and their inevitable customers. That’s the…

  September 21 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism Talk at Spike Island, Bristol (11th July 2016)

  July 8 2016, 4:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The New iPhone Might Shut Off Next Time You Try to Film…

  Anyone who has a smartphone is capable of whipping out a high-resolution camera and filming injustice in progress. That technology is how we've become exposed to police abuses nationwide and helped…

  July 8 2016, 4:05am | Comments

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  July 4 2016, 1:45am | Comments

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  July 3 2016, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Make Kith Not Kin! | Public Seminar

  When my daughter was little, we played a game on the way to her preschool called Count the Dog Poo. It was a game about counting, as you would play with…

  June 25 2016, 12:16am | Comments

• Additivism 3D Printing & Art Activism Workshop + Talk and Q&A

  June 3 2016, 2:07am | Comments

• Portfolio Tate Series: Digital Thresholds: from Information to Agency (public event)

  May 17 2016, 7:23am | Comments

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• 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

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

  June 30 2018, 10:02am | 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

• 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 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

• Bookmark Neanderthals went extinct, but many of us still carry around fragments of…

  Up to about 100,000 years ago, our human ancestors coexisted with Neanderthals in Europe and interbred with them for thousands of years. The Neanderthals eventually went extinct, but many of us…

  November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments

• Portfolio NXS Issue #2 Synthetic Selves

  November 10 2017, 7:18am | Comments

• Bookmark ABOLISH BORDERS as Revolutionary Futurity | Art Practical

  To witness revolutionary futurity—the belief that social transformation is possible, and begins with a transcendence of the self—in a public space that fosters genuine politics, drive up San Francisco’s 24th Street…

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | 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 The Uproar Over ‘Transracialism’

  The world of academic philosophy is ordinarily a rather esoteric one. But Rebecca Tuvel’s article “In Defense of Transracialism,” published in the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia this spring, has generated a…

  June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Things That Anarchists Say to Me in Private But Never Repeat Publicly…

  Can you relate? 2) “As a white person, if I don't automatically agree with whichever person of color is directly in front of me, I run the risk of being labelled…

  April 9 2017, 2:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Books after the Death of the Book | Public Books

  Last summer I decided to assign Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects in the graduate course I was getting ready to teach.

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Twenty Theses on Posthumanism, Political Affect, and Proliferation | Public Seminar

  The human is always already posthuman. The human is the animal that relies on technology in order to realize its humanity. The “post-human” is thus an ontological category, more than a…

  March 11 2017, 7:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark What News-Writing Bots Mean for the Future of Journalism | WIRED

  This story is part of our special coverage, The News in Crisis. When Republican Steve King beat back Democratic challenger Kim Weaver in the race for Iowa’s 4th congressional district seat…

  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

• YouTube

  February 18 2017, 7:19pm | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Design+Media Theory | Public Seminar

  Our focus will be on key thinkers across the fields of media, design and technology. The course starts our everyday experience of designed and  mediated environments, whether as creators or regular users (1-3).

  December 30 2016, 9:09am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 21 2016, 1:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Perils of Peak Attention | New Republic

  “I am alarmed,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in “Walking,” his 1862 essay, “when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.” The…

  November 4 2016, 7:07am | 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

• 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

• Bookmark Sorry David Attenborough, We Didn't Evolve from "Aquatic Apes"--Here's Why - Scientific…

  The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Occasionally in science there are theories that refuse to die despite the overwhelming evidence…

  September 28 2016, 1:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The Dark Web Is Mostly Full of Garbage

  The dark web—the portion of the deep web only accessible through specific software—exists to serve the needs of hackers-for-hire, hitmen, internet drug kingpins, child pornographers, and their inevitable customers. That’s the…

  September 21 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism Talk at Spike Island, Bristol (11th July 2016)

  July 8 2016, 4:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The New iPhone Might Shut Off Next Time You Try to Film…

  Anyone who has a smartphone is capable of whipping out a high-resolution camera and filming injustice in progress. That technology is how we've become exposed to police abuses nationwide and helped…

  July 8 2016, 4:05am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 4 2016, 1:45am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 3 2016, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Make Kith Not Kin! | Public Seminar

  When my daughter was little, we played a game on the way to her preschool called Count the Dog Poo. It was a game about counting, as you would play with…

  June 25 2016, 12:16am | Comments

• Additivism 3D Printing & Art Activism Workshop + Talk and Q&A

  June 3 2016, 2:07am | Comments

• Portfolio Tate Series: Digital Thresholds: from Information to Agency (public event)

  May 17 2016, 7:23am | Comments

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