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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,…

  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

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• 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

• Bookmark Games blamed for moral decline and addiction throughout history

  Video games are often blamed for unemployment, violence in society and addiction – including by partisan politicians raising moral concerns. Blaming video games for social or moral decline might feel like…

  October 14 2019, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark In Praise of Samuel R. Delany - The New York Times

  The author of “Dhalgren” and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world,” the novelist Jordy Rosenberg writes. So reflects the nameless…

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments

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• Syllabus Cache Science, Technology, and Society Syllabus – Danya Glabau

  Course Description What makes something a scientific fact? What is the social impact of new technologies? Who in society benefits and who is harmed by the rapid development of modern science and technology? These are just some of…

  January 25 2019, 9:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Dystopias Now • Commune

  The end of the world is over. Now the real work begins. Dystopias are the flip side of utopias. Both of them express feelings about our shared future; utopias express our…

  November 18 2018, 8:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Jair Bolsonaro and the perversion of liberalism

  IN JULY, AT a convention of his small and inaptly named Social Liberal Party, Jair Bolsonaro unveiled his star hire.

  October 26 2018, 7:51pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Part I HSPS Decolonial Reading List (2018-2019)

  The Human, Social, Political Sciences (HSPS) Cambridge undergraduate degree purports to offer students a broad and interdisciplinary understanding of the issues that matter in our world.

  September 12 2018, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Why memes matter: our best shot to talk about the world in…

  We have entered a post-truth, post-authenticity era, in which dichotomies like true/false or real/fake no longer serve us very well, especially on social media platforms.

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Exploring The Digital Ruins Of 'Second Life' - Digg

  I logged into "Second Life" in the year 2018 A.D. It still exists, sort of. Residents and businesses began fleeing for more popular social networks long ago. Vast acres of land…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Memes That Kill: The Future Of Information Warfare

  Memes and social networks have become weaponized, while many governments seem ill-equipped to understand the new reality of information warfare. How will we fight state-sponsored disinformation and propaganda in the future?

  May 8 2018, 4:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The humanist left must challenge the rise of cyborg socialism

  Undiagnosed by the mainstream media and much of the academic community, a major intellectual renewal is underway across the left. It is energetic and tech-savvy, building platforms such as Novara Media.

  April 24 2018, 4:34pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Hito Steyerl | Politics of Post-Representation «DIS Magazine

  From the militarization of social media to the corporatization of the art world, Hito Steyerl’s writings represent some of the most influential bodies of work in contemporary cultural criticism today.

  April 14 2018, 5:54am | 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

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• Bookmark Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science…

  Star Trek was one way of dealing with the social anxieties of the 1960s. Since sci-fi mirrors the present, ecological collapse requires a new dystopian fiction Build an imaginary world in…

  September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments

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  August 9 2017, 9:29am | Comments

• Bookmark ABOLISH BORDERS as Revolutionary Futurity | Art Practical

  To witness revolutionary futurity—the belief that social transformation is possible, and begins with a transcendence of the self—in a public space that fosters genuine politics, drive up San Francisco’s 24th Street…

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments

• 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

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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,…

  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

• Bookmark Games blamed for moral decline and addiction throughout history

  Video games are often blamed for unemployment, violence in society and addiction – including by partisan politicians raising moral concerns. Blaming video games for social or moral decline might feel like…

  October 14 2019, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark In Praise of Samuel R. Delany - The New York Times

  The author of “Dhalgren” and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world,” the novelist Jordy Rosenberg writes. So reflects the nameless…

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 8 2019, 6:24am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Science, Technology, and Society Syllabus – Danya Glabau

  Course Description What makes something a scientific fact? What is the social impact of new technologies? Who in society benefits and who is harmed by the rapid development of modern science and technology? These are just some of…

  January 25 2019, 9:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Dystopias Now • Commune

  The end of the world is over. Now the real work begins. Dystopias are the flip side of utopias. Both of them express feelings about our shared future; utopias express our…

  November 18 2018, 8:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Jair Bolsonaro and the perversion of liberalism

  IN JULY, AT a convention of his small and inaptly named Social Liberal Party, Jair Bolsonaro unveiled his star hire.

  October 26 2018, 7:51pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Part I HSPS Decolonial Reading List (2018-2019)

  The Human, Social, Political Sciences (HSPS) Cambridge undergraduate degree purports to offer students a broad and interdisciplinary understanding of the issues that matter in our world.

  September 12 2018, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Why memes matter: our best shot to talk about the world in…

  We have entered a post-truth, post-authenticity era, in which dichotomies like true/false or real/fake no longer serve us very well, especially on social media platforms.

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Exploring The Digital Ruins Of 'Second Life' - Digg

  I logged into "Second Life" in the year 2018 A.D. It still exists, sort of. Residents and businesses began fleeing for more popular social networks long ago. Vast acres of land…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Memes That Kill: The Future Of Information Warfare

  Memes and social networks have become weaponized, while many governments seem ill-equipped to understand the new reality of information warfare. How will we fight state-sponsored disinformation and propaganda in the future?

  May 8 2018, 4:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The humanist left must challenge the rise of cyborg socialism

  Undiagnosed by the mainstream media and much of the academic community, a major intellectual renewal is underway across the left. It is energetic and tech-savvy, building platforms such as Novara Media.

  April 24 2018, 4:34pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Hito Steyerl | Politics of Post-Representation «DIS Magazine

  From the militarization of social media to the corporatization of the art world, Hito Steyerl’s writings represent some of the most influential bodies of work in contemporary cultural criticism today.

  April 14 2018, 5:54am | 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

• YouTube

  October 19 2017, 8:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science…

  Star Trek was one way of dealing with the social anxieties of the 1960s. Since sci-fi mirrors the present, ecological collapse requires a new dystopian fiction Build an imaginary world in…

  September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 9 2017, 9:29am | Comments

• Bookmark ABOLISH BORDERS as Revolutionary Futurity | Art Practical

  To witness revolutionary futurity—the belief that social transformation is possible, and begins with a transcendence of the self—in a public space that fosters genuine politics, drive up San Francisco’s 24th Street…

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments

• 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

• YouTube

  April 28 2017, 3:44pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 2 2017, 8:00am | Comments

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