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• 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 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 This Woman Just Figured Out How to Control Sperm with Her Brain…

  For transdisciplinary artist Ani Liu, working in science and technology has provided a way for her to explore the intersection between research, culture, and implications of emerging technologies.

  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…

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  April 28 2017, 3:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'Hobbit' species did not evolve from ancestor of modern humans, research finds…

  Researchers who studied the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, say their findings should end a popular theory that…

  April 25 2017, 8:01am | 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

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  April 2 2017, 8:00am | Comments

• Additivism Centre Pompidou: quand les artistes impriment le monde en 3D «...

  March 16 2017, 5:34am | Comments

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  February 27 2017, 5:35am | Comments

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

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Impact of Social Sciences – Big data problems we face today can…

  In the 19th century, changes in knowledge were facilitated not only by large quantities of new information pouring in from around the world but by shifts in the production, processing and…

  February 20 2017, 11:01pm | Comments

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  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 Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene | Aeon Ideas

  Human-level intelligence is familiar in biological hardware – you’re using it now. Science and technology seem to be converging, from several directions, on the possibility of similar intelligence in non-biological systems.

  October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments

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  October 27 2016, 7:05am | 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

• Ask Metafilter 'Zones' in science and weird fiction Looking for examples of science/weird fictions that deal with 'zones': intermediate or parallel realms - often forbidden - beyond the normal sphere of law or reason. ...of course there's 'Stalker' or 'Roadside Picnic' & echoes in the 2010 film 'Monsters' and Jeff VanderMeer's…

  September 21 2016, 6:22am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future According to Stanisław Lem

  In his 1971 novella The Futurological Congress, the Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem describes a group of futurologists who have gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica to stave off…

  September 14 2016, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Will A.I. Harm Us? Better to Ask How We'll Reckon With Our…

  Photo by Ars Electronica / FlickrLittle Lewis, my son, I see some evidence that you have the ability to learn science, number and proportions, and I recognize your special desire to…

  September 7 2016, 7:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark In Theory Bakhtin: Dialogism, Polyphony and Heteroglossia | Ceasefire Magazine

  Mikhail Bakhtin was one of the most important theorists of discourse in the twentieth century. He is sometimes termed the most important Soviet thinker in the social sciences. His work also…

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Atomic bombs and oil addiction herald Earth’s new epoch: The Anthropocene |…

  Just after World War II, when the atomic bombs fell and our thirst for coal and oil became a full-blown addiction, Earth entered the Anthropocene, a new geologic time when humanity’s…

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Download and print your own clitoris! Modelling and 3D printing an anatomically correct clitoris (Vimeo) . Sociologist Odile Fillod teamed up with photographer Marie Docher and digital mediator (and Blender user) Mélissa Richard (from the Cité des Sciences) to create the first downloadable, printable and open source 3D model…

  August 5 2016, 7:37pm | Comments

• Portfolio Embracing the Horror of The Anthropocence (plenary talk)

  August 3 2016, 4:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Transrealism: the first major literary movement of the 21st century? | Books…

  It’s not science fiction, it’s not realism, but hovers in the unsettling zone in between. From Philip K Dick to Stephen King, Damien Walter takes a tour through transrealism, the emerging…

  July 17 2016, 4:33am | Comments

• Bookmark People Are Making And Selling Counterfeit Jellyfish In China | Popular Science

  There are all sorts of food scams perpetrated every day here in America. The whole farm-to-table trend, for example — a lot of that is probably just marketing bullshit, according to…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Gender fluidity and the waning power of men - Frontpage - e-flux…

  In The Guardian, Amanda Holpuch writes about the new book The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future by former science reporter Frank Browning.

  June 15 2016, 4:59pm | Comments

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• 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 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 This Woman Just Figured Out How to Control Sperm with Her Brain…

  For transdisciplinary artist Ani Liu, working in science and technology has provided a way for her to explore the intersection between research, culture, and implications of emerging technologies.

  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

• Vimeo

  April 29 2017, 12:02pm | Comments

• YouTube

  April 28 2017, 3:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'Hobbit' species did not evolve from ancestor of modern humans, research finds…

  Researchers who studied the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, say their findings should end a popular theory that…

  April 25 2017, 8:01am | 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

• Additivism Centre Pompidou: quand les artistes impriment le monde en 3D «...

  March 16 2017, 5:34am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 27 2017, 5:35am | Comments

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

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Impact of Social Sciences – Big data problems we face today can…

  In the 19th century, changes in knowledge were facilitated not only by large quantities of new information pouring in from around the world but by shifts in the production, processing and…

  February 20 2017, 11:01pm | 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 Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene | Aeon Ideas

  Human-level intelligence is familiar in biological hardware – you’re using it now. Science and technology seem to be converging, from several directions, on the possibility of similar intelligence in non-biological systems.

  October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments

• YouTube

  October 27 2016, 7:05am | 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

• Ask Metafilter 'Zones' in science and weird fiction Looking for examples of science/weird fictions that deal with 'zones': intermediate or parallel realms - often forbidden - beyond the normal sphere of law or reason. ...of course there's 'Stalker' or 'Roadside Picnic' & echoes in the 2010 film 'Monsters' and Jeff VanderMeer's…

  September 21 2016, 6:22am | Comments

• Bookmark The Future According to Stanisław Lem

  In his 1971 novella The Futurological Congress, the Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem describes a group of futurologists who have gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica to stave off…

  September 14 2016, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Will A.I. Harm Us? Better to Ask How We'll Reckon With Our…

  Photo by Ars Electronica / FlickrLittle Lewis, my son, I see some evidence that you have the ability to learn science, number and proportions, and I recognize your special desire to…

  September 7 2016, 7:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark In Theory Bakhtin: Dialogism, Polyphony and Heteroglossia | Ceasefire Magazine

  Mikhail Bakhtin was one of the most important theorists of discourse in the twentieth century. He is sometimes termed the most important Soviet thinker in the social sciences. His work also…

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Atomic bombs and oil addiction herald Earth’s new epoch: The Anthropocene |…

  Just after World War II, when the atomic bombs fell and our thirst for coal and oil became a full-blown addiction, Earth entered the Anthropocene, a new geologic time when humanity’s…

  September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Download and print your own clitoris! Modelling and 3D printing an anatomically correct clitoris (Vimeo) . Sociologist Odile Fillod teamed up with photographer Marie Docher and digital mediator (and Blender user) Mélissa Richard (from the Cité des Sciences) to create the first downloadable, printable and open source 3D model…

  August 5 2016, 7:37pm | Comments

• Portfolio Embracing the Horror of The Anthropocence (plenary talk)

  August 3 2016, 4:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Transrealism: the first major literary movement of the 21st century? | Books…

  It’s not science fiction, it’s not realism, but hovers in the unsettling zone in between. From Philip K Dick to Stephen King, Damien Walter takes a tour through transrealism, the emerging…

  July 17 2016, 4:33am | Comments

• Bookmark People Are Making And Selling Counterfeit Jellyfish In China | Popular Science

  There are all sorts of food scams perpetrated every day here in America. The whole farm-to-table trend, for example — a lot of that is probably just marketing bullshit, according to…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Gender fluidity and the waning power of men - Frontpage - e-flux…

  In The Guardian, Amanda Holpuch writes about the new book The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future by former science reporter Frank Browning.

  June 15 2016, 4:59pm | Comments

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