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• Ask Metafilter the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come…

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• Bookmark Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. | The New Yorker

  On December 15, 1811, the London Statesman issued a warning about the state of the stocking industry in Nottingham. Twenty thousand textile workers had lost their jobs because of the incursion…

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• Metafilter MeFi: Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator, and other deliberately crap games Guardian: 'The annual CGC (Crap Games Competition) has been bringing Spectrum fans together for more than 25 years' ... "What makes the CGC entertaining is the self-deprecating, sardonic British humour," explains 43-year-old Paul Collins from Reading, who first entered the CGC in 2000…

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• Syllabus Cache AI Images — Cybernetic Forests.

  Critical Topics: AI Images is an undergraduate class delivered for Bradley University in Spring 2023. It is meant to provide an overview of the context of AI art making tools and connects media studies, new media art, and…

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• Bookmark ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get…

  A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

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• Bookmark ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get…

  A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

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• Bookmark DALL-E 2, the future of AI research, and OpenAI’s business model –…

  This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. Artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI made headlines again, this time with DALL-E 2, a machine learning model that can generate…

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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…

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• Bookmark All the right words on climate have already been said » Nieman…

  Sometime last week, an editor who semi-ghosted me on an article I wrote several months ago texted me saying she wanted to talk. I didn’t want to talk to her because…

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• Podcast Cache The AI-Augmented Author. Writing With GPT-3 With Paul Bellow | The Creative…

  How can authors use AI writing tools like GPT-3? What's the best way to prompt the models to output usable text? Are there copyright issues with this approach? Author Paul Bellow explains how he is using the tools…

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• Bookmark Theory in Crisis Seminar - Benjamin Noys, The Crisis of the Future…

  What is the role of critical theory today and who is it for? What kind of maps can theory provide in the context of entrenched capitalist crisis? These are some of the…

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• Bookmark Defuturing the Image of the Future

  On the occasion of the opening of Designs for Different Futures at the Walker Art Center, we will be publishing a number of texts from the exhibition catalogue (Yale University Press,…

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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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• Podcast Cache Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: "Wildcat The Totality" - Fred Moten And Stefano…

  This is part one of a two-part conversation with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.  Fred Moten is the author of In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, multiple volumes of poetry, and most recently the…

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• Podcast Cache Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital

  Nick Land is a British philosopher living in Shanghai. Nick is one of the main figures in the school of thought known as accelerationism. He is currently writing a book about the philosophical implications of Bitcoin. We talked…

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• Bookmark It's So Hot in Japan, the Fake Food in Restaurant Windows Is…

  A friend of mine flew from northern California, to North Carolina on Saturday night and was immediately surprised by what she encountered when she landed. “Why is it so hot here?”…

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  In the online art workshops of the white nationalist alt right, young neo-Nazis and neo-fascists trade simple aesthetic tips: Consider your color scheme in advance, build your image in sections of…

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• Podcast Cache Episode 431: Takeshi Murata and Robert Beatty | Bad at Sports

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  For decades, as astronomers have imagined advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, they categorized such worlds by the amount of energy their inhabitants might conceivably be able to harness and use.

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  Archaeology was institutionalized by a reification of the past into governmental branding, such as through images of Palmyra on the national currency, or school textbooks. Although Palmyrans wrote and probably spoke…

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• Ask Metafilter the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come…

  March 14 2024, 1:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. | The New Yorker

  On December 15, 1811, the London Statesman issued a warning about the state of the stocking industry in Nottingham. Twenty thousand textile workers had lost their jobs because of the incursion…

  February 12 2024, 10:03am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 27 2023, 11:53am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 22 2023, 6:27pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator, and other deliberately crap games Guardian: 'The annual CGC (Crap Games Competition) has been bringing Spectrum fans together for more than 25 years' ... "What makes the CGC entertaining is the self-deprecating, sardonic British humour," explains 43-year-old Paul Collins from Reading, who first entered the CGC in 2000…

  July 6 2023, 11:35pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache AI Images — Cybernetic Forests.

  Critical Topics: AI Images is an undergraduate class delivered for Bradley University in Spring 2023. It is meant to provide an overview of the context of AI art making tools and connects media studies, new media art, and…

  February 5 2023, 7:33am | Comments

• Bookmark ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get…

  A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

  December 12 2022, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get…

  A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

  December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 22 2022, 6:07am | Comments

• Bookmark DALL-E 2, the future of AI research, and OpenAI’s business model –…

  This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. Artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI made headlines again, this time with DALL-E 2, a machine learning model that can generate…

  April 12 2022, 6:51pm | Comments

• Portfolio WHY I WANT TO FUCK ELON MUSK

  November 26 2021, 2:06am | Comments

• 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

• Bookmark All the right words on climate have already been said » Nieman…

  Sometime last week, an editor who semi-ghosted me on an article I wrote several months ago texted me saying she wanted to talk. I didn’t want to talk to her because…

  July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache The AI-Augmented Author. Writing With GPT-3 With Paul Bellow | The Creative…

  How can authors use AI writing tools like GPT-3? What's the best way to prompt the models to output usable text? Are there copyright issues with this approach? Author Paul Bellow explains how he is using the tools…

  June 26 2021, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Theory in Crisis Seminar - Benjamin Noys, The Crisis of the Future…

  What is the role of critical theory today and who is it for? What kind of maps can theory provide in the context of entrenched capitalist crisis? These are some of the…

  March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Defuturing the Image of the Future

  On the occasion of the opening of Designs for Different Futures at the Walker Art Center, we will be publishing a number of texts from the exhibition catalogue (Yale University Press,…

  December 23 2020, 1:19am | 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

• Podcast Cache Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: "Wildcat The Totality" - Fred Moten And Stefano…

  This is part one of a two-part conversation with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.  Fred Moten is the author of In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, multiple volumes of poetry, and most recently the…

  July 29 2020, 1:03am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 4 2020, 6:34pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital

  Nick Land is a British philosopher living in Shanghai. Nick is one of the main figures in the school of thought known as accelerationism. He is currently writing a book about the philosophical implications of Bitcoin. We talked…

  August 15 2018, 8:28am | Comments

• Bookmark It's So Hot in Japan, the Fake Food in Restaurant Windows Is…

  A friend of mine flew from northern California, to North Carolina on Saturday night and was immediately surprised by what she encountered when she landed. “Why is it so hot here?”…

  August 14 2018, 8:41pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 22 2018, 1:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark This is fashwave, the suicidal retro-futurist art of the alt-right

  In the online art workshops of the white nationalist alt right, young neo-Nazis and neo-fascists trade simple aesthetic tips: Consider your color scheme in advance, build your image in sections of…

  March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 14 2017, 8:44am | Comments

• Portfolio NXS Issue #2 Synthetic Selves

  November 10 2017, 7:18am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Episode 431: Takeshi Murata and Robert Beatty | Bad at Sports

  http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_431-Murata_and_Beatty.mp3download This week: San Francisco checks in with a great interview. Bad at Sports contributors Brian Andrews and Patricia Maloney sat down with artist Takeshi Murata and sound designer Robert Beatty on November 9, 2013, at Ratio 3, in San…

  September 28 2017, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Earth as hybrid planet: New classification places Anthropocene era in astrobiological context

  For decades, as astronomers have imagined advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, they categorized such worlds by the amount of energy their inhabitants might conceivably be able to harness and use.

  September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Palmyra and the Political History of Archaeology in Syria: from Colonialists to…

  Archaeology was institutionalized by a reification of the past into governmental branding, such as through images of Palmyra on the national currency, or school textbooks. Although Palmyrans wrote and probably spoke…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Aesthetics of the Alt-Right – Post-Office Arts Journal

  Editor’s Note: This article includes an in-depth inquiry into the online activities of political groups for which misogyny, racism, and anti-semitism become defining features; as such, images and mentions of those topics are found…

  March 6 2017, 2:07am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

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