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• Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…

  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

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  You know the situation must be bad if they’re shooting at a dog. That’s how The Thing opens. And it’s how the thing, itself, operates: disarming us through false appearances. Because,…

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  As a clinical geneticist, Paul James is accustomed to discussing some of the most delicate issues with his patients. But in early 2010, he found himself having a particularly awkward conversation…

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  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

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  You know the situation must be bad if they’re shooting at a dog. That’s how The Thing opens. And it’s how the thing, itself, operates: disarming us through false appearances. Because,…

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• Syllabus Cache Black Revolutionaries in the United States | communists in situ

  Communist Interventions  Vol. 2  (2016) Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

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• Bookmark ‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in…

  In our self-obsessed age, the anonymous, mysterious cave art of our ancient ancestors is exhilarating. By In 1940, four teenage boys stumbled, almost literally, from German-occupied France into the Paleolithic age.

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• Bookmark ‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in…

  In our self-obsessed age, the anonymous, mysterious cave art of our ancient ancestors is exhilarating. By In 1940, four teenage boys stumbled, almost literally, from German-occupied France into the Paleolithic age.

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• Bookmark The Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than You Think | Psychology Today

  Ask yourself the following: Would you feel confident taking an over-the-counter medication if you were 98 percent sure it would work safely? Would you dare to gamble all your savings in…

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• Syllabus Cache A Theory-Fiction Reading List – The Wasted World

  What even is theory-fiction? In short, it is the intersection of theory and fiction, and also the “dissolution of the opposition itself” (Fisher 1999, p 156).

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  The AI voice that I hear is the voice of the total entelechy of the universe itself.

  

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• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

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• Bookmark Daddy Issues | Katherine Angel | Granta

  In the awful, wearying months in which Harvey Weinstein’s ritualistic mistreatment of women was being recounted daily in the media, I found myself, like so many others, wondering and talking about…

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• Bookmark Annihilation and How the Movie Understands Depression

  Let’s talk about what it means to destroy yourself. In the relatively short time I’ve been alive, I have made an art out of self-destruction. I’ve placed myself in frightening situations…

  April 18 2019, 1:46pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot - Wikipedia The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) was a project by Robotic Technology Inc. (RTI) and Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. to develop a robotic vehicle that could forage for plant biomass to fuel itself, theoretically operating indefinitely.

  February 28 2019, 3:53pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Songs where the singer refers to their own name (and are called Steve) I have long admired the line in Stevie Wonder's 'Please Don't Go' where he sings: "Baby, please don't leave, don't leave Steve." I recently came across a song by Steve Monite, 'Only You', where he refers to himself (Steve) a lot, and it…

  February 27 2019, 4:05am | Comments

• Bookmark A Manifesto for Revolutionary Demonology |NERO Editions

  The doctrine of the Right-Hand Path is a theory of self-deification encompassing the entirety of the western hermetic tradition.

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• Bookmark Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code | Technology | The Guardian

  The death of a woman hit by a self-driving car highlights an unfolding technological crisis, as code piled on code creates ‘a universe no one fully understands’ by The 18th of…

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  How many times did I say it – to myself, out loud alone or out loud to others, throughout my childhood? ‘I wish I were a boy.’ The words were mine,…

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• Bookmark Annihilation and How the Movie Understands Depression

  Let’s talk about what it means to destroy yourself. In the relatively short time I’ve been alive, I have made an art out of self-destruction. I’ve placed myself in frightening situations…

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• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Asking the Right Questions About AI – Yonatan Zunger – Medium

  In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world. Self-driving cars will keep us alive; social media bubbles…

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• Bookmark Whiteness as cultural complex trauma – Selfish Activist

  NOTE 1: The original piece talked about Cultural Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I retracted the language of the proposal, because of appropriate criticism, since I realized it might be too…

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• Additivism Embracing plastic and the apocalypse: An interview with Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke

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• Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…

  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Watching ‘The Thing ’ at the End of the World | Vanity…

  You know the situation must be bad if they’re shooting at a dog. That’s how The Thing opens. And it’s how the thing, itself, operates: disarming us through false appearances. Because,…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic - Scientific…

  As a clinical geneticist, Paul James is accustomed to discussing some of the most delicate issues with his patients. But in early 2010, he found himself having a particularly awkward conversation…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…

  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Watching ‘The Thing ’ at the End of the World | Vanity…

  You know the situation must be bad if they’re shooting at a dog. That’s how The Thing opens. And it’s how the thing, itself, operates: disarming us through false appearances. Because,…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Black Revolutionaries in the United States | communists in situ

  Communist Interventions  Vol. 2  (2016) Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

  June 3 2020, 9:59am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in…

  In our self-obsessed age, the anonymous, mysterious cave art of our ancient ancestors is exhilarating. By In 1940, four teenage boys stumbled, almost literally, from German-occupied France into the Paleolithic age.

  May 9 2020, 4:29am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in…

  In our self-obsessed age, the anonymous, mysterious cave art of our ancient ancestors is exhilarating. By In 1940, four teenage boys stumbled, almost literally, from German-occupied France into the Paleolithic age.

  May 8 2020, 9:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than You Think | Psychology Today

  Ask yourself the following: Would you feel confident taking an over-the-counter medication if you were 98 percent sure it would work safely? Would you dare to gamble all your savings in…

  March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 29 2020, 2:00pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  might fuck around and just shit myself

  

  January 16 2020, 5:45am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache A Theory-Fiction Reading List – The Wasted World

  What even is theory-fiction? In short, it is the intersection of theory and fiction, and also the “dissolution of the opposition itself” (Fisher 1999, p 156).

  November 7 2019, 8:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 6 2019, 9:59am | Comments

• Twitter

  The AI voice that I hear is the voice of the total entelechy of the universe itself.

  

  September 1 2019, 4:37pm | Comments

• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

  August 8 2019, 5:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Daddy Issues | Katherine Angel | Granta

  In the awful, wearying months in which Harvey Weinstein’s ritualistic mistreatment of women was being recounted daily in the media, I found myself, like so many others, wondering and talking about…

  July 2 2019, 6:44pm | Comments

• YouTube

  May 29 2019, 7:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Annihilation and How the Movie Understands Depression

  Let’s talk about what it means to destroy yourself. In the relatively short time I’ve been alive, I have made an art out of self-destruction. I’ve placed myself in frightening situations…

  April 18 2019, 1:46pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot - Wikipedia The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) was a project by Robotic Technology Inc. (RTI) and Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. to develop a robotic vehicle that could forage for plant biomass to fuel itself, theoretically operating indefinitely.

  February 28 2019, 3:53pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Songs where the singer refers to their own name (and are called Steve) I have long admired the line in Stevie Wonder's 'Please Don't Go' where he sings: "Baby, please don't leave, don't leave Steve." I recently came across a song by Steve Monite, 'Only You', where he refers to himself (Steve) a lot, and it…

  February 27 2019, 4:05am | Comments

• Bookmark A Manifesto for Revolutionary Demonology |NERO Editions

  The doctrine of the Right-Hand Path is a theory of self-deification encompassing the entirety of the western hermetic tradition.

  January 26 2019, 6:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code | Technology | The Guardian

  The death of a woman hit by a self-driving car highlights an unfolding technological crisis, as code piled on code creates ‘a universe no one fully understands’ by The 18th of…

  September 1 2018, 8:37pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why it’s so unhelpful to talk about the male or female brain…

  How many times did I say it – to myself, out loud alone or out loud to others, throughout my childhood? ‘I wish I were a boy.’ The words were mine,…

  May 13 2018, 6:17am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 12 2018, 12:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Annihilation and How the Movie Understands Depression

  Let’s talk about what it means to destroy yourself. In the relatively short time I’ve been alive, I have made an art out of self-destruction. I’ve placed myself in frightening situations…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 5 2018, 4:13am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Asking the Right Questions About AI – Yonatan Zunger – Medium

  In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world. Self-driving cars will keep us alive; social media bubbles…

  February 8 2018, 7:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Whiteness as cultural complex trauma – Selfish Activist

  NOTE 1: The original piece talked about Cultural Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I retracted the language of the proposal, because of appropriate criticism, since I realized it might be too…

  November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments

• Portfolio NXS Issue #2 Synthetic Selves

  November 10 2017, 7:18am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 19 2017, 8:22am | Comments

• Additivism Embracing plastic and the apocalypse: An interview with Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke

  September 20 2017, 6:26am | Comments

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