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  "...terrans do webbed, braided, and tentacular living and dying...they do not do History." https://t.co/rqB6ubks0x

  

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• Syllabus Cache SYLLABUS | INTERNET ART: networks, performative programming, and web as…

  This course examines the history, theory, and practice of making art on the web. Beginning with early examples of systems theory, we will trace the utopian ideals of the web’s origin to the commercial and social complexity of…

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• Bookmark HAUNTINGS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE | environmental critique

  Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects, which sets out a series of thoughts about “dark ecologies,” has become central to thinking about storytelling in the modern era, in my opinion.

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• Ask Metafilter Books on Food and its relation to Colonialism/Imperialism Are there any good books telling the story of imperialism/colonialism through food? Since reading Guns, Germs and Steel many years ago I have been fascinated with the origins of world food, especially when it highlights untold histories of civilisation. This article on 'How…

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• Bookmark Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence | The Public Domain…

  Defecating ducks, talking busts, and mechanised Christs — Jessica Riskin on the wonderful history of automata, machines built to mimic the processes of intelligent life.

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• Bookmark Exiting The Anthropocene and Entering The Symbiocene. | glennaalbrecht

  It has been proposed that humans are now living within a period of the Earth’s history appropriately named ‘The Anthropocene’ (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000).

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• Bookmark Centaur chess marries human and machine -- BloomReach

  The story of IBM’s Deep Blue computer defeating world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 has been told so many times that it’s practically shorthand for the philosophical debate over man…

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• Additivism More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species Into the Unknown

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• Bookmark Ancestors of Modern Humans Interbred With Extinct Hominins, Study Finds

  The ancestors of modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and another extinct line of humans known as the Denisovans at least four times in the course of prehistory, according to an analysis…

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• Bookmark AI & The Future Of Civilization | Edge.org

  What makes us different from all these things? What makes us different is the particulars of our history, which gives us our notions of purpose and goals.

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• Bookmark The Nefertiti 3D Scan Heist Is A Hoax | Cosmo Wenman

  The New York Times’ March 1, 2016 story “Swiping a Priceless Antiquity … With a Scanner and a 3-D Printer” by Charly Wilder tells how two German artists made a surreptitious, unauthorized…

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• Bookmark Crocheting a Queer Vision of Art History

  Caroline Wells Chandler’s “Zack” (2016), hand-crocheted assorted wool, 30″ x 22″, installed at Lord Ludd (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) PHILADELPHIA — Just as you’re rounding the corner,…

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  Why has the narrative of computer history come to be defined more by images of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg than by the pioneering work of Ada Lovelace, who is often…

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• Bookmark In the Name of Humanity | Limn

  The total archive is already here, Balázs Bodó finds it hidden in the shadows and run by pirates. As I write this in August 2015, we are in the middle of…

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• Additivism Essay on Morehshin Allahyari’s Material Speculation & #Additivism

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  The story of Z was supposed to be about how biohacking had allowed her to become immortal. She lived in the year 2040, and by most measures her life was happy.…

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• Bookmark The Anthropocene: A Reading List – Jason M. Kelly

  In preparation for teaching a course entitled, “History, the Environment, and the Global Anthropocene,” I thought that it might be a good idea to compile an interdisciplinary reading list on the Anthropocene.…

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• Bookmark A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist | Literary Hub

  I love books that exist almost as much as I love books that don’t exist. So I have written some books, The Seas, The Invention of Everything Else and Mr. Splitfoot,…

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• Syllabus Cache The Anthropocene: A Reading List — Jason M. Kelly

  In preparation for teaching a course entitled, “History, the Environment, and the Global Anthropocene,” I thought that it might be a good idea to compile an interdisciplinary reading list on the Anthropocene. The list that I decided to create is not…

  December 25 2015, 9:43am | Comments

• Bookmark 7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding

  Worldbuilding is an essential part of any work of fiction. But especially for science fiction or fantasy, it's the lifeblood of storytelling. But when worldbuilding fails, it can wreck your whole…

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• Bookmark 'Save the Planet, Kill Yourself': The Contentious History of the Church of…

  On September 13, 1993, motorists driving on the Massachusetts Turnpike witnessed an unusual sight: A highway billboard for the Museum of Science in Boston had been covered by a ten-foot-by-ten-foot black…

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• Bookmark Neandertal Perfume Dark & Neandertal Perfume Light Offer a Contemporary Whiff of…

  Confidential and new British fragrance label Neandertal have brought to fruition the central project they've been working on, whose aim is to recreate the possible scents that Neanderthales knew, transposed to…

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  "...terrans do webbed, braided, and tentacular living and dying...they do not do History." https://t.co/rqB6ubks0x

  

  September 8 2016, 4:20pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache SYLLABUS | INTERNET ART: networks, performative programming, and web as…

  This course examines the history, theory, and practice of making art on the web. Beginning with early examples of systems theory, we will trace the utopian ideals of the web’s origin to the commercial and social complexity of…

  September 1 2016, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark HAUNTINGS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE | environmental critique

  Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects, which sets out a series of thoughts about “dark ecologies,” has become central to thinking about storytelling in the modern era, in my opinion.

  July 17 2016, 4:47am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Books on Food and its relation to Colonialism/Imperialism Are there any good books telling the story of imperialism/colonialism through food? Since reading Guns, Germs and Steel many years ago I have been fascinated with the origins of world food, especially when it highlights untold histories of civilisation. This article on 'How…

  July 13 2016, 5:00am | Comments

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  May 24 2016, 1:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence | The Public Domain…

  Defecating ducks, talking busts, and mechanised Christs — Jessica Riskin on the wonderful history of automata, machines built to mimic the processes of intelligent life.

  May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Exiting The Anthropocene and Entering The Symbiocene. | glennaalbrecht

  It has been proposed that humans are now living within a period of the Earth’s history appropriately named ‘The Anthropocene’ (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000).

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Centaur chess marries human and machine -- BloomReach

  The story of IBM’s Deep Blue computer defeating world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 has been told so many times that it’s practically shorthand for the philosophical debate over man…

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Additivism More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species Into the Unknown

  April 16 2016, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancestors of Modern Humans Interbred With Extinct Hominins, Study Finds

  The ancestors of modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and another extinct line of humans known as the Denisovans at least four times in the course of prehistory, according to an analysis…

  March 23 2016, 1:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark AI & The Future Of Civilization | Edge.org

  What makes us different from all these things? What makes us different is the particulars of our history, which gives us our notions of purpose and goals.

  March 17 2016, 5:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Nefertiti 3D Scan Heist Is A Hoax | Cosmo Wenman

  The New York Times’ March 1, 2016 story “Swiping a Priceless Antiquity … With a Scanner and a 3-D Printer” by Charly Wilder tells how two German artists made a surreptitious, unauthorized…

  March 17 2016, 5:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Crocheting a Queer Vision of Art History

  Caroline Wells Chandler’s “Zack” (2016), hand-crocheted assorted wool, 30″ x 22″, installed at Lord Ludd (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) PHILADELPHIA — Just as you’re rounding the corner,…

  March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The feminist groups disrupting bro-tech culture in 2016 | Dazed

  Why has the narrative of computer history come to be defined more by images of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg than by the pioneering work of Ada Lovelace, who is often…

  March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Name of Humanity | Limn

  The total archive is already here, Balázs Bodó finds it hidden in the shadows and run by pirates. As I write this in August 2015, we are in the middle of…

  March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments

• Additivism Essay on Morehshin Allahyari’s Material Speculation & #Additivism

  February 13 2016, 4:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Even Transhumanist Elites Are Worried Only the Rich Will Be Able to…

  The story of Z was supposed to be about how biohacking had allowed her to become immortal. She lived in the year 2040, and by most measures her life was happy.…

  January 31 2016, 9:14am | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 19 2016, 8:31am | Comments

• Bookmark The Anthropocene: A Reading List – Jason M. Kelly

  In preparation for teaching a course entitled, “History, the Environment, and the Global Anthropocene,” I thought that it might be a good idea to compile an interdisciplinary reading list on the Anthropocene.…

  January 9 2016, 8:16am | Comments

• Bookmark A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist | Literary Hub

  I love books that exist almost as much as I love books that don’t exist. So I have written some books, The Seas, The Invention of Everything Else and Mr. Splitfoot,…

  January 9 2016, 8:10am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 6 2016, 7:00am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 29 2015, 4:14pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache The Anthropocene: A Reading List — Jason M. Kelly

  In preparation for teaching a course entitled, “History, the Environment, and the Global Anthropocene,” I thought that it might be a good idea to compile an interdisciplinary reading list on the Anthropocene. The list that I decided to create is not…

  December 25 2015, 9:43am | Comments

• Bookmark 7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding

  Worldbuilding is an essential part of any work of fiction. But especially for science fiction or fantasy, it's the lifeblood of storytelling. But when worldbuilding fails, it can wreck your whole…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 7 2015, 11:07am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Save the Planet, Kill Yourself': The Contentious History of the Church of…

  On September 13, 1993, motorists driving on the Massachusetts Turnpike witnessed an unusual sight: A highway billboard for the Museum of Science in Boston had been covered by a ten-foot-by-ten-foot black…

  October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Neandertal Perfume Dark & Neandertal Perfume Light Offer a Contemporary Whiff of…

  Confidential and new British fragrance label Neandertal have brought to fruition the central project they've been working on, whose aim is to recreate the possible scents that Neanderthales knew, transposed to…

  October 20 2015, 9:35am | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 10 2015, 11:07pm | Comments

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