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  The first fossilised dinosaur brain has been found on a beach in East Sussex and could show that the extinct giants were more intelligent than first thought. The small brown pebble…

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  If you happen to find yourself in Sydney this week, you have the unique opportunity to have sex with the earth. You just need to stop by the "ecosexual bathhouse," which…

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  Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly familiar and sexy, and imbued with a perversely dystopian allure.

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  Male beetles trying to mate with this decoy female get 4,000 fatal volts of electricity. An emerald ash borer hovers, checking out the female forms below him. He’s drawn by how…

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  Paul Verlaine celebrated it in his 1889 poem Printemps as a “shining pink button”, but thanks to the sociomedical researcher Odile Fillod, French schoolchildren will now understand that it looks more…

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  Jacques Toussaint Benoît believed that snails, once mated, had a lifelong telepathic bond. (Photo: Pierre Watson/shutterstock.com)

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  The movement was young, energetic, educated, and art school-heavy. Above all it was “positive”: both cyber-positive and sex-positive. Sometime in the late 1990s, I met someone else called Joanna Walsh. The fact that…

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  Additivism talk for Disnovation Panel at Transmediale, (4th Feb 2016)Daniel Rourke talked about deep time, horror, crap, ‘The Weird’ and The Radical at Transmediale festival, Berlin. The talk was part of the Disnovation Research panel, featuring Jean-Marie Boyer, Ewen Chardronnet, Nicolas Maigret, Erin Sexton,…

  February 9 2016, 5:52am | Comments

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  The last sex between Neanderthals and modern humans likely occurred as recently as 47,000 years ago, suggests research detailed online Oct.

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  A strawberry Christmas cake, sexy pants, a pool table, three red jet planes, a hippy bandana, a dog sled, a jetpack, a pair of Adidas trainers, a Tudor throne, a bullet…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Additivism Il ritorno del futuro

  Il ritorno del futuro A long piece - in Italian - about the current state of the future. With reflections on #Additivism, #Xenofeminism, #Chthulucene, #PostInternet: In true spirit of Marinetti, additivism chasing an ideal post-human to the edge of pornography; technological fetishism in their…

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  “Ban sex robots!” scream the tech headlines, as if they’re heralding the arrival of the latest artificial intelligence threat to humankind since autonomous killer robots.

  October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments

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  Christopher Johnson, aged 46, of St Osburg's Road in Stoke, was arrested after simulating a sex act with a slide at Stoke Green Park in Coventry. It's his second slide-related offence.

  October 3 2015, 10:37am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

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  The Catalan collective GynePunk wants to decolonize the female body. To this end, it is developing first aid gynecological tools, for socially disadvantaged women, refugees, sex workers. But also for themselves.

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• Ask Metafilter Monkey sexual politics documentary scene A few years ago I watched a David Attenborough nature doc in which he narrated a scene that took place in an ancient, overgrown jungle temple. An alpha male monkey was surrounded by females, and a smaller, cheeky, male monkey waited nearby. A…

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  The promise of virtual reality has always been enormous. Put on these goggles, go nowhere, and be transported anywhere. It’s the same escapism peddled by drugs, alcohol, sex, and art —…

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  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

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  sext: you have a part to play in the wars to come

  

  December 14 2016, 11:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Small brown pebble found on East Sussex beach is pickled dinosaur brain

  The first fossilised dinosaur brain has been found on a beach in East Sussex and could show that the extinct giants were more intelligent than first thought. The small brown pebble…

  November 4 2016, 7:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It | VICE…

  If you happen to find yourself in Sydney this week, you have the unique opportunity to have sex with the earth. You just need to stop by the "ecosexual bathhouse," which…

  November 4 2016, 7:07am | Comments

• Bookmark The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future |…

  Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly familiar and sexy, and imbued with a perversely dystopian allure.

  October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark When Sex Is Shocking

  Male beetles trying to mate with this decoy female get 4,000 fatal volts of electricity. An emerald ash borer hovers, checking out the female forms below him. He’s drawn by how…

  September 28 2016, 11:28am | Comments

• Bookmark How a 3D clitoris will help teach French schoolchildren about sex |…

  Paul Verlaine celebrated it in his 1889 poem Printemps as a “shining pink button”, but thanks to the sociomedical researcher Odile Fillod, French schoolchildren will now understand that it looks more…

  August 17 2016, 12:04pm | 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

• Bookmark Psychic Snail Sex Couldn't Replace the Telegraph, But One Frenchman Sure Tried…

  Jacques Toussaint Benoît believed that snails, once mated, had a lifelong telepathic bond. (Photo: Pierre Watson/shutterstock.com)

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark "She wore a USB cord instead of a necklace": whatever happened to…

  The movement was young, energetic, educated, and art school-heavy. Above all it was “positive”: both cyber-positive and sex-positive. Sometime in the late 1990s, I met someone else called Joanna Walsh. The fact that…

  May 27 2016, 12:30pm | Comments

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  April 12 2016, 12:23am | Comments

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  March 31 2016, 4:29am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism talk for Disnovation Panel at Transmediale

  Additivism talk for Disnovation Panel at Transmediale, (4th Feb 2016)Daniel Rourke talked about deep time, horror, crap, ‘The Weird’ and The Radical at Transmediale festival, Berlin. The talk was part of the Disnovation Research panel, featuring Jean-Marie Boyer, Ewen Chardronnet, Nicolas Maigret, Erin Sexton,…

  February 9 2016, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans Broke Off Neanderthal Sex After Discovering Eurasia

  The last sex between Neanderthals and modern humans likely occurred as recently as 47,000 years ago, suggests research detailed online Oct.

  December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark What digital trash dumped in games tells us about the players |…

  A strawberry Christmas cake, sexy pants, a pool table, three red jet planes, a hippy bandana, a dog sled, a jetpack, a pair of Adidas trainers, a Tudor throne, a bullet…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Additivism Il ritorno del futuro

  Il ritorno del futuro A long piece - in Italian - about the current state of the future. With reflections on #Additivism, #Xenofeminism, #Chthulucene, #PostInternet: In true spirit of Marinetti, additivism chasing an ideal post-human to the edge of pornography; technological fetishism in their…

  October 5 2015, 10:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Sex robots are actually going to be good for humanity - Quartz

  “Ban sex robots!” scream the tech headlines, as if they’re heralding the arrival of the latest artificial intelligence threat to humankind since autonomous killer robots.

  October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Man sexually attracted to playground equipment banned from anywhere with a slide…

  Christopher Johnson, aged 46, of St Osburg's Road in Stoke, was arrested after simulating a sex act with a slide at Stoke Green Park in Coventry. It's his second slide-related offence.

  October 3 2015, 10:37am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

  September 3 2015, 6:01am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: "Where's My Cut?": On Unpaid Emotional Labor Housework is not work. Sex work is not work. Emotional work is not work. Why? Because they don't take effort? No, because women are supposed to provide them uncompensated, out of the goodness of our hearts.

  July 15 2015, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark GynePunk, the cyborg witches of DIY gynecology : Makery

  The Catalan collective GynePunk wants to decolonize the female body. To this end, it is developing first aid gynecological tools, for socially disadvantaged women, refugees, sex workers. But also for themselves.

  July 7 2015, 4:20pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  June 10 2015, 6:13am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Monkey sexual politics documentary scene A few years ago I watched a David Attenborough nature doc in which he narrated a scene that took place in an ancient, overgrown jungle temple. An alpha male monkey was surrounded by females, and a smaller, cheeky, male monkey waited nearby. A…

  June 3 2015, 1:20pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 25 2015, 2:14am | Comments

• Twitter

  our technologies are the sex organs of material speculation

  

  March 10 2015, 4:12am | Comments

• Bookmark 10 Bizarre and Horrifying Sex Patents (NSFW)

  Depending on who you talk to, the future of sex may be teledildonics. Or virtual reality. Or painfully hot fleshlights. But the one thing almost everyone can agree upon? The future…

  February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments

• Bookmark The Transhumanist Future of Sex | Motherboard

  Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, journalist, and author of the novel The Transhumanist Wager. He writes an occasional column for Motherboard in which he ruminates on the future beyond natural human…

  November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Twitter

  Everything I know about sexual politics I learnt from white dude art.

  

  November 12 2014, 2:22am | Comments

• Bookmark The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality

  The promise of virtual reality has always been enormous. Put on these goggles, go nowhere, and be transported anywhere. It’s the same escapism peddled by drugs, alcohol, sex, and art —…

  August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 27 2014, 1:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

  June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 9:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

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