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  This is a guest post by Daisy Dixon, Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University Content warning: This post includes discussion of abusive language, misogyny, body-shaming, and rape threats.

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• Metafilter MeFi: A Different Aftermath I made another weird little comic thing, hopeful and a little bittersweet, about conservation after the apocalypse. A topic near and dear to my heart, Lord knows.Your favourite and mine Wombat/Kingfisher Ursula Vernon has released a short comic about the post-apocalypse on Twitter,…

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  The TikTok Cultures Research Network held its third virtual event TikTok Methodologies on 19 July 2021 hosted by founding members Associate Professor Crystal Abidin, Professor Patrik Wikström, and Dr D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye. The field of digital media…

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  Various disciplinary “archival turns” over the course of the past few decades have resulted in a tendency towards the over-casual use of the word “archive” as a shorthand to refer to,…

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• Reddit Have you read any scifi that you found overly disturbing? I like weird scifi, and sometimes I am in the mood for scifi that makes me uncomfortable. I don't necessarily mean horror or weird Lovecraftian fiction (not a fan) but just really dark scifi. So what are the weirdest, most unsettling scifi books…

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  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

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  Eleven philosophy short-courses taught in Melbourne June - July. The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is proud to present the Winter School 2020 curriculum. All courses are 10 hours in length. All courses will be taught via Zoom.

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  Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague…

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• Bookmark The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future…

  Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague…

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• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

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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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  It is 35 years since Sarah Connor and the Terminator’s eyes first met across a dark 80s nightclub, shortly followed by his red laser sight meeting her forehead.

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  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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  We’ve all been there. You want a short cut – to the bus stop, office or corner shop – but there’s no designated path. Others before you have already flattened the…

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  In Ray Bradbury’s horror short story, ‘The Next in Line’ (1955), a woman visits the catacombs in Guanajuato, Mexico. Mummified bodies line the walls.

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  Below is a shortened version of Annie Culver’s essay that won Honorable Mention in the 2017 Greene Prize for Environmental Writing. Annie is a PhD student in English at Rice University.

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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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  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…

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  November 23 2023, 3:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Women Philosophers in the Twitter ‘Manosphere’ (or, that light-hearted Hume Tweet that…

  This is a guest post by Daisy Dixon, Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University Content warning: This post includes discussion of abusive language, misogyny, body-shaming, and rape threats.

  July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments

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  April 26 2023, 10:40am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: A Different Aftermath I made another weird little comic thing, hopeful and a little bittersweet, about conservation after the apocalypse. A topic near and dear to my heart, Lord knows.Your favourite and mine Wombat/Kingfisher Ursula Vernon has released a short comic about the post-apocalypse on Twitter,…

  September 10 2022, 2:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the Guy Who Went Viral for Explaining How NFTs Are a…

  Dan Olson’s YouTube documentary “Line Goes Up” is like “The Big Short,” except crypto is the housing crisis. Until a few weeks ago, Dan Olson had a pretty comfortable—if niche—thing going…

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

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• Syllabus Cache TikTok Cultures Research Network (Methodologies)

  The TikTok Cultures Research Network held its third virtual event TikTok Methodologies on 19 July 2021 hosted by founding members Associate Professor Crystal Abidin, Professor Patrik Wikström, and Dr D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye. The field of digital media…

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  September 14 2021, 3:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Resource scarcity not a doomsday scenario

  At the moment, there is an abundance of scarcity. Companies complain that there are shortages of semiconductors, lumber, steel, plastics, chemicals, and other inputs and raw materials. The pandemic disrupted many…

  July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Please Stop Calling Things Archives | Perspectives on History | AHA

  Various disciplinary “archival turns” over the course of the past few decades have resulted in a tendency towards the over-casual use of the word “archive” as a shorthand to refer to,…

  March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments

• Reddit Have you read any scifi that you found overly disturbing? I like weird scifi, and sometimes I am in the mood for scifi that makes me uncomfortable. I don't necessarily mean horror or weird Lovecraftian fiction (not a fan) but just really dark scifi. So what are the weirdest, most unsettling scifi books…

  December 23 2020, 10:31am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

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  August 17 2020, 11:53pm | 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 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Winter School 2020 - MSCP

  Eleven philosophy short-courses taught in Melbourne June - July. The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is proud to present the Winter School 2020 curriculum. All courses are 10 hours in length. All courses will be taught via Zoom.

  June 19 2020, 9:59am | 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 The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future…

  Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague…

  May 17 2020, 8:23am | Comments

• Bookmark The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future…

  Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague…

  May 17 2020, 1:23am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

  December 2 2019, 7:30am | 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

• Bookmark Hasta la vista, Arnie: Sarah Connor is the Terminator's true cultural icon…

  It is 35 years since Sarah Connor and the Terminator’s eyes first met across a dark 80s nightclub, shortly followed by his red laser sight meeting her forehead.

  October 14 2019, 9:31am | Comments

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  October 4 2019, 11:36am | Comments

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  June 15 2019, 10:00am | 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

• Bookmark Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners | Cities…

  We’ve all been there. You want a short cut – to the bus stop, office or corner shop – but there’s no designated path. Others before you have already flattened the…

  March 9 2019, 8:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Horror is a dark and piercing reflection of our anxious times |…

  In Ray Bradbury’s horror short story, ‘The Next in Line’ (1955), a woman visits the catacombs in Guanajuato, Mexico. Mummified bodies line the walls.

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark CENHS @ Rice! » New Materialism, Environmental Justice, and Digital Sites of…

  Below is a shortened version of Annie Culver’s essay that won Honorable Mention in the 2017 Greene Prize for Environmental Writing. Annie is a PhD student in English at Rice University.

  September 4 2018, 9:31am | 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 This wild, AI-generated film is the next step in “whole-movie puppetry” |…

  Click here for transcript. Put this link in the video's caption field. Two years ago, Ars Technica hosted the online premiere of a weird short film called Sunspring, which was mostly…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | 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

• 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

• Portfolio NXS Issue #2 Synthetic Selves

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