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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
Bookmark Dialectic of Dark Enlightenments: The Alt-Right’s Place in the Culture Industry -…
IN Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right (Zero Books, 2017), Angela Nagle does two remarkable things.

August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments
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Bookmark Radicalism Begins in the Body | Boston Review
Junot Díaz interviews science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany about what it means to be an aging sex radical and why he wrote the essay “Ash Wednesday.” Junot Díaz: Chip, “Ash…

June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark Making Sense of “The Weird and the Eerie” - Los Angeles Review…
THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2016; Mark Fisher died on the January 13, 2017. I have written some of my personal reflections on his death…

May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Benjamin Kunkel reviews ‘The Birth of the Anthropocene’ by Jeremy Davies, ‘Capitalism…
How is the ecological predicament of the 21st century to be conceived of? Politically, how is it to be confronted, and by whom? The basic features of the problem are plain…

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
Bookmark The Nomadic Humanities - Los Angeles Review of Books
Kyrgyz nomads, 2011 “Act so that there is no use in a center. A wide action is not a width. A preparation is given to the ones preparing. They do not…

August 17 2016, 12:04pm | Comments
Bookmark The Materiality of Research: ‘On the Materiality of Writing in Academia or…
In this feature essay, Ninna Meier reflects on the materiality of the writing – and re-writing – process in academic research.

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence | The Public Domain…
Defecating ducks, talking busts, and mechanised Christs — Jessica Riskin on the wonderful history of automata, machines built to mimic the processes of intelligent life.

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark Oil: Viscous Time in the Anthropocene - The Los Angeles Review of…
In the 21st century, we are inundated with news about human-induced climate change. But perhaps human-produced media are not the only source of information.

March 29 2016, 2:35pm | Comments
Bookmark The Racist Dawn of Capitalism | Boston Review
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Edward E. Baptist Basic Books, $35 (cloth)

March 23 2016, 1:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Heritage as a Platform: New Frontiers in Cultural Preservation | Gates of…
A few weeks ago on this site I reviewed John Robb’s book Brave New War, discussing the potential of reconfiguring heritage preservation from a top-down, hierarchical model into a participatory, two-way,…

March 17 2016, 5:05pm | Comments
Bookmark The Opium Wars, Neoliberalism, and the Anthropocene - The Los Angeles Review…
IT IS HARD to simply skim through the materials on Amitav Ghosh’s website. The information is bountiful, and the data is incredibly varied, indexing the many dimensions of his oeuvre. One…

January 9 2016, 8:17am | Comments
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December 16 2015, 10:52pm | Comments
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December 12 2015, 9:28pm | Comments
Bookmark At Synthorx, Synthetic Biologists Put Artificial Life Forms to Work | MIT…
In the May 15, 2014, edition of the journal Nature, Floyd Romesberg’s chemistry lab at San Diego’s Scripps Research Institute published a paper titled “A Semi-Synthetic Organism with an Expanded Genetic…

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark Ancillary Mercy reviewed: The final novel in Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch science…
In an introduction to her 1969 science-fiction masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin sought to correct the assumption that science fiction is about the future.

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark Wark on Moore’s Capitalocene « immanence
McKenzie Wark gets at some very important issues in what we might call “the ontology of the Anthropocene” in this review of Jason Moore’s book Capitalism in the Web of Life.

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
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October 30 2015, 9:35am | 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 What Happens When Biases Are Inadvertently Baked Into Algorithms - The Atlantic
A recent ProPublica analysis of The Princeton Review’s prices for online SAT tutoring shows that customers in areas with a high density of Asian residents are often charged more.

September 9 2015, 11:27am | Comments
Bookmark How Machine Vision Is About to Change the Fashion World | MIT…
In the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, the notorious fashion editor Miranda Priestly sizes up people at a glance by analyzing their clothes, who designed them, and what year they…

September 9 2015, 1:58am | Comments
Bookmark Fredric Jameson reviews ‘Time Travel’ by David Wittenberg · LRB 10 September…
It is probably not immediately obvious what interest a new theoretical study of science fiction holds for the mainstream adepts of literary theory; and no doubt it is just as perplexing…

September 6 2015, 5:18am | Comments
Bookmark The Dark Mountain Manifesto: A Brief Review | Post-futurum
“The machine is stuttering and the engineers are in panic. They are wondering if perhaps they do not understand it as well as they imagined. They are wondering whether they are…

July 30 2015, 6:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Machine Vision Algorithm Chooses the Most Creative Paintings in History | MIT…
Creativity is one of humanity’s uniquely defining qualities. Numerous thinkers have explored the qualities that creativity must have, and most pick out two important factors: whatever the process of creativity produces,…

June 12 2015, 1:36am | Comments
Bookmark Before and After Comparisons of the Visual Effects in Mad Max: Fury…
One of the big Hollywood blockbusters to hit the silver screen this year has been Mad Max: Fury Road, which has gotten rave reviews, with many praising the insane and complex…

May 31 2015, 5:38am | Comments
Bookmark The Object as Subject - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of…
Did you know that since 1985 errant golf balls have killed eight people? "Sometimes death was sudden; sometimes it came after several days." Most deaths come from strikes on the head,…

May 14 2015, 5:43pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Samuel Delaney reviews Star Wars Samuel R. Delany's 1977 review of Star Wars.

April 11 2015, 10:45am | Comments
Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments
Bookmark Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information | The Los…
Erik Davis’s TechGnosis is considered the classic text on the relation between technology and the occult. This “Afterword 2.0” was written for a new edition, just out from North Atlantic Books.

April 6 2015, 4:46am | Comments

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