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• Bookmark “There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New…

   THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

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• Metafilter Ask MeFi: cities in sci-fi and fantasy novels Looking for recommendations of science fiction and fantasy books (or short stories) in which the city settings are central or at least important to the story. Utopias, dystopias, segregated or in space, am looking for all kinds of stories.

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• Bookmark Biologists Have Discovered an Underwater Octopus City And They're Calling It Octlantis

  At the end of last year, scientists discovered a small octopus city – dubbed Octlantis – a find that suggests members of the gloomy octopus species (Octopus tetricus) are perhaps not the…

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• 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…

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• Bookmark Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail

  Limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius will not prevent destructive and deadly climate impacts, as once hoped, dozens of experts concluded in a score of scientific studies released Monday. A…

  April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments

• Bookmark AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey & Company

  Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will. Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016.

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• Bookmark Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science…

  Star Trek was one way of dealing with the social anxieties of the 1960s. Since sci-fi mirrors the present, ecological collapse requires a new dystopian fiction Build an imaginary world in…

  September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future is Fungal – Mask Magazine

  The future as shown to us by science fictions is almost always shiny. Whether in aspirational daydreams or depictions of dystopia, the vision continues to be one of gleaming metal, stark…

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• Bookmark Who Needs Hard Drives? Scientists Store Film Clip in DNA - The…

  It was one of the very first motion pictures ever made: a galloping mare filmed in 1878 by the British photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who was trying to learn whether horses in…

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Please Prove You’re Not a Robot - The New York Times

  When science fiction writers first imagined robot invasions, the idea was that bots would become smart and powerful enough to take over the world by force, whether on their own or…

  July 16 2017, 8:15am | Comments

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

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• Furtherfield Contributions The New Observatory at FACT

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• Bookmark The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence - The New York Times

  BEIJING — What worries you about the coming world of artificial intelligence? Too often the answer to this question resembles the plot of a sci-fi thriller. People worry that developments in…

  June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Men Who Were ‘The Thing’ Look Back on a Modern Horror…

  The Thing died a noisy death when it debuted in 1982. In fact, this masterful paranoiac thriller about a vicious shape-shifting alien infiltrating a group of scientists stationed in Antarctica bombed…

  June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• 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 Literary fiction is borrowing the tools of the science fiction genre.

  The worst thing about the present, if you’re an artist, is that it never stands still long enough. Once, perhaps, it lingered, back in the days when everyone communicated by letter…

  June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism Workshop: Designing Post-Natural Futures (Athens,...

  Additivism Workshop: Designing Post-Natural Futures (Athens, 10-11 Jun 2017) 12:00-18:00 - Diplareios School (Theatrou sq 3, Athens centre)This #additivism workshop led by Daniel Rourke and Geraldine Juárez invites us to an exploration of post-natural history, geo-history and Mediterranean world-ecologies, emphasizing critical perspectives driven from…

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• Bookmark Cyberpunk Through A Woman's Mirrored Lens | Neon Dystopia

  Science fiction, cyberpunk included, has always been a bit of a boys club. Think of the names that we most readily associate with the genre. William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson,…

  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.…

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

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• Bookmark Humans Can Now "Print" Genetic Code and Engineer Life

  We have learned how to manipulate the code of life. Why this hasn’t received more attention is beyond me. Synthetic Biology is a multidisciplinary field that often defies definition. Yet despite…

  February 14 2017, 11:08am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

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• Bookmark How to Crochet a Coral Reef--and Why - Scientific American Blog Network

  It’s hard to get people’s attention focused on the environment. Blame it on diminishing attention spans, overwhelming amounts of information, or simply the fact that people grow weary of hearing the…

  January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments

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• Bookmark “There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New…

   THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: cities in sci-fi and fantasy novels Looking for recommendations of science fiction and fantasy books (or short stories) in which the city settings are central or at least important to the story. Utopias, dystopias, segregated or in space, am looking for all kinds of stories.

  July 2 2018, 9:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Biologists Have Discovered an Underwater Octopus City And They're Calling It Octlantis

  At the end of last year, scientists discovered a small octopus city – dubbed Octlantis – a find that suggests members of the gloomy octopus species (Octopus tetricus) are perhaps not the…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | 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

• Vimeo

  April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail

  Limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius will not prevent destructive and deadly climate impacts, as once hoped, dozens of experts concluded in a score of scientific studies released Monday. A…

  April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments

• Bookmark AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey & Company

  Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will. Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016.

  December 13 2017, 4:26am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 22 2017, 12:25pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 9 2017, 5:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science…

  Star Trek was one way of dealing with the social anxieties of the 1960s. Since sci-fi mirrors the present, ecological collapse requires a new dystopian fiction Build an imaginary world in…

  September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future is Fungal – Mask Magazine

  The future as shown to us by science fictions is almost always shiny. Whether in aspirational daydreams or depictions of dystopia, the vision continues to be one of gleaming metal, stark…

  August 17 2017, 6:50am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 9 2017, 9:29am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 5 2017, 6:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Who Needs Hard Drives? Scientists Store Film Clip in DNA - The…

  It was one of the very first motion pictures ever made: a galloping mare filmed in 1878 by the British photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who was trying to learn whether horses in…

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Please Prove You’re Not a Robot - The New York Times

  When science fiction writers first imagined robot invasions, the idea was that bots would become smart and powerful enough to take over the world by force, whether on their own or…

  July 16 2017, 8:15am | 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 Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence - The New York Times

  BEIJING — What worries you about the coming world of artificial intelligence? Too often the answer to this question resembles the plot of a sci-fi thriller. People worry that developments in…

  June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Men Who Were ‘The Thing’ Look Back on a Modern Horror…

  The Thing died a noisy death when it debuted in 1982. In fact, this masterful paranoiac thriller about a vicious shape-shifting alien infiltrating a group of scientists stationed in Antarctica bombed…

  June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• 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 Literary fiction is borrowing the tools of the science fiction genre.

  The worst thing about the present, if you’re an artist, is that it never stands still long enough. Once, perhaps, it lingered, back in the days when everyone communicated by letter…

  June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism Workshop: Designing Post-Natural Futures (Athens,...

  Additivism Workshop: Designing Post-Natural Futures (Athens, 10-11 Jun 2017) 12:00-18:00 - Diplareios School (Theatrou sq 3, Athens centre)This #additivism workshop led by Daniel Rourke and Geraldine Juárez invites us to an exploration of post-natural history, geo-history and Mediterranean world-ecologies, emphasizing critical perspectives driven from…

  June 2 2017, 5:06am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 29 2017, 12:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cyberpunk Through A Woman's Mirrored Lens | Neon Dystopia

  Science fiction, cyberpunk included, has always been a bit of a boys club. Think of the names that we most readily associate with the genre. William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson,…

  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

• Vimeo

  April 2 2017, 8:00am | Comments

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

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 20 2017, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark Humans Can Now "Print" Genetic Code and Engineer Life

  We have learned how to manipulate the code of life. Why this hasn’t received more attention is beyond me. Synthetic Biology is a multidisciplinary field that often defies definition. Yet despite…

  February 14 2017, 11:08am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark How to Crochet a Coral Reef--and Why - Scientific American Blog Network

  It’s hard to get people’s attention focused on the environment. Blame it on diminishing attention spans, overwhelming amounts of information, or simply the fact that people grow weary of hearing the…

  January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments

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