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• Bookmark The Man Who Turned the World on to the Genius of Fungi…

  One evening last winter, Merlin Sheldrake, the mycologist and author of the best-selling book “Entangled Life,” was headlining an event in London’s Soho. The night was billed as a “salon,” and…

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• Bookmark AI and the threat of "human extinction": What are the tech-bros worried…

  On May 30, a research organization called the Center for AI Safety released a 22-word statement signed by a number of prominent "AI scientists," including Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI;…

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• Bookmark Godless grifters: How the New Atheists merged with the far right |…

  It was inspiring — really inspiring.

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• Bookmark The right-wing politics of the “Singularity” | Salon.com

  Silicon Valley is not a place known for its religiosity, yet a remarkable number of tech leaders and workers have an irrational belief in the Singularity.

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• Podcast Cache Episode 431: Takeshi Murata and Robert Beatty | Bad at Sports

  http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_431-Murata_and_Beatty.mp3download This week: San Francisco checks in with a great interview. Bad at Sports contributors Brian Andrews and Patricia Maloney sat down with artist Takeshi Murata and sound designer Robert Beatty on November 9, 2013, at Ratio 3, in San…

  September 28 2017, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Exit and the Extensions of Man | transmediale

  What does a real man do when things get tough at home? Runs out to buy cigarettes. Or so goes the male fantasy, as Sarah Sharma argued in her 2017 keynote…

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• Bookmark The ghost that haunts American literature: The genius & the repugnance of…

  Howard Phillips Lovecraft will make you believe in ghosts. The legendary “cosmic horror” author has been dead for 78 years, and yet he continues to get more controversial by the day.

  December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reflections on Philip K. Dick | Open Geography

  Amazon have just released their adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Man in the High Castle. David Gill, at San Francisco State University, was recently interviewed by Salon about the show. He makes…

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• Bookmark Our stuff is burying us alive: Hoarding and the mountains of garbage…

  Would you want to inherit your friends' stuff? Your valuables might mean just as little Look around the homes of loved ones whose objects you might at some future date have…

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• Bookmark Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture’s Generations | The Multispecies Salon

  by Donna Haraway Frontier practices of the 21st century are always announcing new worlds, proposing the novel as the solution to the old, figuring creation as radical invention and replacement, rushing…

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• Bookmark Why artificial intelligence is the future of religion - Salon.com

  There are places you never expect to be in life.

  September 15 2014, 3:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Our weird robot apocalypse: How paper clips could bring about the end…

  If you dread a robot revolt, stop worrying about killer computers, and start worrying about ... paper clips? Nick Bostrom is explaining to me how superintelligent AIs could destroy the human…

  August 18 2014, 5:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark p-zombies are inconceivable. With notes on the idea of metaphysical possibility. «…

  Philosophy of mind and the nature of consciousness are fascinating topics, which recur both here at Scientia Salon [1] and at my former writing outlet, Rationally Speaking [2].

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

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  May 27 2013, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Are video games the next great art form?

  Video games have come a very long way since the 1980s... As Tom Bissell, a journalist, former Salon writer and lifelong gamer, explains in his new book, "Extra Lives: Why Video…

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• Bookmark The Man Who Turned the World on to the Genius of Fungi…

  One evening last winter, Merlin Sheldrake, the mycologist and author of the best-selling book “Entangled Life,” was headlining an event in London’s Soho. The night was billed as a “salon,” and…

  July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark AI and the threat of "human extinction": What are the tech-bros worried…

  On May 30, a research organization called the Center for AI Safety released a 22-word statement signed by a number of prominent "AI scientists," including Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI;…

  July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Godless grifters: How the New Atheists merged with the far right |…

  It was inspiring — really inspiring.

  June 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments

• Bookmark The right-wing politics of the “Singularity” | Salon.com

  Silicon Valley is not a place known for its religiosity, yet a remarkable number of tech leaders and workers have an irrational belief in the Singularity.

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 28 2017, 10:24am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 28 2017, 10:16am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Episode 431: Takeshi Murata and Robert Beatty | Bad at Sports

  http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_431-Murata_and_Beatty.mp3download This week: San Francisco checks in with a great interview. Bad at Sports contributors Brian Andrews and Patricia Maloney sat down with artist Takeshi Murata and sound designer Robert Beatty on November 9, 2013, at Ratio 3, in San…

  September 28 2017, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Exit and the Extensions of Man | transmediale

  What does a real man do when things get tough at home? Runs out to buy cigarettes. Or so goes the male fantasy, as Sarah Sharma argued in her 2017 keynote…

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The ghost that haunts American literature: The genius & the repugnance of…

  Howard Phillips Lovecraft will make you believe in ghosts. The legendary “cosmic horror” author has been dead for 78 years, and yet he continues to get more controversial by the day.

  December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reflections on Philip K. Dick | Open Geography

  Amazon have just released their adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Man in the High Castle. David Gill, at San Francisco State University, was recently interviewed by Salon about the show. He makes…

  December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark Our stuff is burying us alive: Hoarding and the mountains of garbage…

  Would you want to inherit your friends' stuff? Your valuables might mean just as little Look around the homes of loved ones whose objects you might at some future date have…

  November 8 2015, 8:24am | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 21 2015, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture’s Generations | The Multispecies Salon

  by Donna Haraway Frontier practices of the 21st century are always announcing new worlds, proposing the novel as the solution to the old, figuring creation as radical invention and replacement, rushing…

  August 29 2015, 3:33pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 10 2015, 4:24am | Comments

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  January 26 2015, 12:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why artificial intelligence is the future of religion - Salon.com

  There are places you never expect to be in life.

  September 15 2014, 3:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Our weird robot apocalypse: How paper clips could bring about the end…

  If you dread a robot revolt, stop worrying about killer computers, and start worrying about ... paper clips? Nick Bostrom is explaining to me how superintelligent AIs could destroy the human…

  August 18 2014, 5:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark p-zombies are inconceivable. With notes on the idea of metaphysical possibility. «…

  Philosophy of mind and the nature of consciousness are fascinating topics, which recur both here at Scientia Salon [1] and at my former writing outlet, Rationally Speaking [2].

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 27 2013, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Are video games the next great art form?

  Video games have come a very long way since the 1980s... As Tom Bissell, a journalist, former Salon writer and lifelong gamer, explains in his new book, "Extra Lives: Why Video…

  June 21 2010, 7:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 19 2009, 5:48am | Comments

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