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  With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel Foucault heralded a new way of thinking that would transform the humanities and social sciences.

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  The first social media — blogs — were built on the idea of “user-pull” (users would decide which creators to follow) and “reverse chrono” (users received the most recent posts first).

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• Bookmark Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays

  There seems to be a growing recognition that humanity might be approaching the ‘end times’. Dire predictions of catastrophe clutter the news. Social media videos of hellish wildfires, devastating floods and…

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  One of the aims of the Pause for Thought project is to contribute to the study of how social acceleration and the increasing rate at which media are changing impacts contemporary society and politics.

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  Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to draw historic parallels…

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  In the wake of a decolonized and destabilized world order, the emergence of the idea of a global commons was consolidated in the 1970s in the context of attempts made by…

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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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  Writing for academic publication is highly stylised and formalised. In this post Rob Kitchin describes how writing fiction has shaped his own academic praxis and can provide scholars with an expanded range of…

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  Traditionally we think of images as relatively individualized or delimited phenomena that, in one way or the other, appear to the human mind and apparatus of perception. Currently, however, we are witnessing an intensification of what we might…

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  Bestiality, the act of having sex with an animal, tends to conjure images of a mucky, socially inadequate, desperate farmer sneaking into the barn after dark, or depraved groups of thrill-seekers…

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  The first Neanderthal face to emerge from time’s sarcophagus was a woman’s. As the social and liberal revolutions of 1848 began convulsing Europe, quarry workers’ rough hands pulled her from the…

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• 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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• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Good middle age group graphic novels for a woke 9 year old girl As above! I saw her reading Nnedi Okorafor's Ikenga. Shippable to US on not amazon would be great. Very social justice orientated family. Thank you!

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• Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts

  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

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• Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic

  Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

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  Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

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  In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by…

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  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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• Syllabus Cache Coronavirus & Theory — Are.na

  Are.na is a social platform for creative and collaborative research.

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• Syllabus Cache Reading List | From the Archive: Readings for a Pandemic

  Here at Places, in the Bay Area, we are sheltering in place, and adjusting to changed rhythms and new anxieties as we communicate via Skype or Zoom, check the news obsessively, and find new forms of social solidarity…

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  Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life – money, power, jobs, university admission – should be…

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  Levels of inequality have changed dramatically during the course of human evolution: from the social hierarchies of our great ape ancestors to egalitarian small-scale societies of hunter-gatherers, and then to large-scale…

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  Donna Haraway famously pronounced, “the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion” in her influential A Cyborg Manifesto.

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• Bookmark AI art is only good for hollow, hotel lobby pieces - New…

  An AI-generated image. Illustration by MoiraM/Alamy How much would you be willing to pay an artist for a portrait? £500? £200? How about $7.99 for 50? Over the last few days…

  December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The People Cheering for Humanity’s End - The Atlantic

  With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel Foucault heralded a new way of thinking that would transform the humanities and social sciences.

  December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The “algospeak” dialect. An emerging vocabulary designed to… | by Cory Doctorow…

  The first social media — blogs — were built on the idea of “user-pull” (users would decide which creators to follow) and “reverse chrono” (users received the most recent posts first).

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays

  There seems to be a growing recognition that humanity might be approaching the ‘end times’. Dire predictions of catastrophe clutter the news. Social media videos of hellish wildfires, devastating floods and…

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 31 2022, 8:00am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Pause for Thought

  One of the aims of the Pause for Thought project is to contribute to the study of how social acceleration and the increasing rate at which media are changing impacts contemporary society and politics.

  March 21 2022, 1:33am | Comments

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  March 6 2022, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism - In These Times

  Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to draw historic parallels…

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

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• Bookmark Extinction Politics // New Socialist

  In the wake of a decolonized and destabilized world order, the emergence of the idea of a global commons was consolidated in the 1970s in the context of attempts made by…

  November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments

• 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…

  November 9 2021, 1:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Writing fiction as scholarly work | Impact of Social Sciences

  Writing for academic publication is highly stylised and formalised. In this post Rob Kitchin describes how writing fiction has shaped his own academic praxis and can provide scholars with an expanded range of…

  July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache The Changing Ontology of the Image | The Nordic Journal…

  Traditionally we think of images as relatively individualized or delimited phenomena that, in one way or the other, appear to the human mind and apparatus of perception. Currently, however, we are witnessing an intensification of what we might…

  July 4 2021, 10:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark What It’s Like to Date a Horse

  Bestiality, the act of having sex with an animal, tends to conjure images of a mucky, socially inadequate, desperate farmer sneaking into the barn after dark, or depraved groups of thrill-seekers…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark What do we know about the lives of Neanderthal women? | Aeon…

  The first Neanderthal face to emerge from time’s sarcophagus was a woman’s. As the social and liberal revolutions of 1848 began convulsing Europe, quarry workers’ rough hands pulled her from the…

  January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments

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• 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…

  September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Good middle age group graphic novels for a woke 9 year old girl As above! I saw her reading Nnedi Okorafor's Ikenga. Shippable to US on not amazon would be great. Very social justice orientated family. Thank you!

  August 31 2020, 6:34am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts

  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

  August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic

  Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

  July 26 2020, 2:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic

  Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

  July 25 2020, 10:13pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache The Black Anarchism Reader

  In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by…

  June 3 2020, 11:52am | 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

• Syllabus Cache Coronavirus & Theory — Are.na

  Are.na is a social platform for creative and collaborative research.

  April 23 2020, 7:34am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Coronavirus & Theory — Are.na

  Are.na is a social platform for creative and collaborative research.

  April 23 2020, 12:34am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Reading List | From the Archive: Readings for a Pandemic

  Here at Places, in the Bay Area, we are sheltering in place, and adjusting to changed rhythms and new anxieties as we communicate via Skype or Zoom, check the news obsessively, and find new forms of social solidarity…

  April 1 2020, 5:59pm | Comments

• YouTube

  January 31 2020, 2:28am | Comments

• Bookmark A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you…

  Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life – money, power, jobs, university admission – should be…

  January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark Peter Turchin A Feminist Perspective on Human Social Evolution - Peter Turchin

  Levels of inequality have changed dramatically during the course of human evolution: from the social hierarchies of our great ape ancestors to egalitarian small-scale societies of hunter-gatherers, and then to large-scale…

  January 1 2020, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Science Fiction and Posthumanism – Critical Posthumanism Network

  Donna Haraway famously pronounced, “the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion” in her influential A Cyborg Manifesto.

  October 14 2019, 9:31am | Comments

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