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• Bookmark To Save a World: Geoengineering, Conflictual Futurisms, and the Unthinkable - Journal…

  The Anthropocene is proving to be an era of world war, or rather, worlds at war. Not that this is anything new.

  October 25 2018, 4:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Revolutionary Monsters: the Suicide of Identity Politics

  In their discourse on the revolution, Negri and Hardt use the concept of a positive generative monster. Monstrosity arises as otherness, something contrary to the existing order. It is a freak…

  October 20 2018, 8:36pm | Comments

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  Excited to be friends with The Thing.

  

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• Bookmark We Should Never Have Called It Earth | The On Being Project

  We should never have called it Earth. Three quarters of the planet’s surface is saltwater, and most of it does not lap at tranquil beaches for our amusement. The ocean is…

  July 31 2018, 7:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality

  I wonder if the reason we keep on cycling back to hope about cool things like VR is that for all the tech news and our fetishizing about our touch devices,…

  July 22 2018, 5:33am | Comments

• Bookmark “There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New…

   THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark John Carpenter’s THE THING is More Lovecraftian Than You Thought | Nerdist

  In the 35 years since John Carpenter‘s first big studio movie, 1982’s The Thing, which he made for Universal, was released, it’s metamorphosed from flop to underground classic in the horror…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Instagram In Portuguese, ‘atropelar’ is the act of running over something or someone - often in…

  June 30 2018, 10:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Practical Magic: Assimilating John Carpenter’s The Thing | VHS Revival

  In an era of countless reboots, we have come to regard the whole process as a cynical exercise whose primary goal is to slash expenditure, but that was not always the…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

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• Bookmark black (beyond negation) – The New Inquiry

  Care pays attention to how we are known to ourselves and to each other. Care lingers at the ordinary: notices it, names it, creates it, inhabits it, pursues it, practices it.…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists Sucked A Memory Out of a Snail and Stuck it in…

  A new study strongly suggests that at least some memories are stored in genetic code, and that genetic code can act like memory soup. Suck it out of one animal and…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark 187 Things the Blockchain Is Supposed to Fix | WIRED

  When businesses latch onto a buzzword, it quickly becomes the solution to everything. Not long ago, in the era of “big data,” companies scrambled to add chief data scientists to their…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild…

  Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world’s 7.6…

  May 24 2018, 3:47am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Help me find this quote about living in possible worlds/utopias I read a quote recently, and cannot find it again. It was in an article or interview about better worlds, about the possibility of utopia. And the person writing/being interviewed quoted another thinker's doctrine, something like: "A possible world is only worth considering…

  April 28 2018, 5:30am | Comments

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• Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - e-flux Architecture - e-flux

  We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

  April 10 2018, 12:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

  My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of…

  March 19 2018, 12:27pm | 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

• Metafilter MeFi: Classic Mario music but... cHAngED Super Mario Bros 2 with its music frequency table "reversed.". I'm not sure what that means exactly but it's certainly an, um, unique sound. The same thing done to Mario 3.

  March 12 2018, 2:34pm | Comments

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  In the future, everything will mine cryptocoins for 15 minutes.

  

  March 12 2018, 7:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be…

  The following is an excerpt from Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy, by Lynne Segal (Verso, November 2017). This essay is recommended by Longreads contributing editor Dana Snitzky.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Men Who Are Convinced We’re All Living in a Simulation

  Dale Baker was introduced to simulation theory five years ago as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa. The idea that our reality may be nothing more than a computer-generated…

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• Bookmark The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans - The Atlantic

  It was a tense summer day in 1835 Japan. The country’s reigning Go player, Honinbo Jowa, took his seat across a board from a 25-year-old prodigy by the name of Akaboshi…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

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  "Weapons, or Other Things the Parents Have Specifically Forbidden" https://t.co/Nwq7NAvMvU

  

  October 26 2017, 8:04am | Comments

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  October 16 2017, 4:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is a mission to Mars morally defensible given today’s real needs? |…

  There are good reasons to worry about the future of humanity. Do we have a future, and if so, how much and what kind? For most people, it’s easier to feel…

  October 11 2017, 5:08pm | Comments

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• Bookmark To Save a World: Geoengineering, Conflictual Futurisms, and the Unthinkable - Journal…

  The Anthropocene is proving to be an era of world war, or rather, worlds at war. Not that this is anything new.

  October 25 2018, 4:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Revolutionary Monsters: the Suicide of Identity Politics

  In their discourse on the revolution, Negri and Hardt use the concept of a positive generative monster. Monstrosity arises as otherness, something contrary to the existing order. It is a freak…

  October 20 2018, 8:36pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Excited to be friends with The Thing.

  

  October 9 2018, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark We Should Never Have Called It Earth | The On Being Project

  We should never have called it Earth. Three quarters of the planet’s surface is saltwater, and most of it does not lap at tranquil beaches for our amusement. The ocean is…

  July 31 2018, 7:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality

  I wonder if the reason we keep on cycling back to hope about cool things like VR is that for all the tech news and our fetishizing about our touch devices,…

  July 22 2018, 5:33am | Comments

• Bookmark “There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New…

   THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark John Carpenter’s THE THING is More Lovecraftian Than You Thought | Nerdist

  In the 35 years since John Carpenter‘s first big studio movie, 1982’s The Thing, which he made for Universal, was released, it’s metamorphosed from flop to underground classic in the horror…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Instagram In Portuguese, ‘atropelar’ is the act of running over something or someone - often in…

  June 30 2018, 10:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Practical Magic: Assimilating John Carpenter’s The Thing | VHS Revival

  In an era of countless reboots, we have come to regard the whole process as a cynical exercise whose primary goal is to slash expenditure, but that was not always the…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 11 2018, 10:26am | Comments

• Bookmark black (beyond negation) – The New Inquiry

  Care pays attention to how we are known to ourselves and to each other. Care lingers at the ordinary: notices it, names it, creates it, inhabits it, pursues it, practices it.…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists Sucked A Memory Out of a Snail and Stuck it in…

  A new study strongly suggests that at least some memories are stored in genetic code, and that genetic code can act like memory soup. Suck it out of one animal and…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark 187 Things the Blockchain Is Supposed to Fix | WIRED

  When businesses latch onto a buzzword, it quickly becomes the solution to everything. Not long ago, in the era of “big data,” companies scrambled to add chief data scientists to their…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild…

  Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world’s 7.6…

  May 24 2018, 3:47am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Help me find this quote about living in possible worlds/utopias I read a quote recently, and cannot find it again. It was in an article or interview about better worlds, about the possibility of utopia. And the person writing/being interviewed quoted another thinker's doctrine, something like: "A possible world is only worth considering…

  April 28 2018, 5:30am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 24 2018, 8:46am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 19 2018, 8:01am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - e-flux Architecture - e-flux

  We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

  April 10 2018, 12:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

  My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of…

  March 19 2018, 12:27pm | 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

• Metafilter MeFi: Classic Mario music but... cHAngED Super Mario Bros 2 with its music frequency table "reversed.". I'm not sure what that means exactly but it's certainly an, um, unique sound. The same thing done to Mario 3.

  March 12 2018, 2:34pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  In the future, everything will mine cryptocoins for 15 minutes.

  

  March 12 2018, 7:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be…

  The following is an excerpt from Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy, by Lynne Segal (Verso, November 2017). This essay is recommended by Longreads contributing editor Dana Snitzky.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Men Who Are Convinced We’re All Living in a Simulation

  Dale Baker was introduced to simulation theory five years ago as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa. The idea that our reality may be nothing more than a computer-generated…

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 14 2017, 8:44am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 9 2017, 5:00am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 3 2017, 5:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans - The Atlantic

  It was a tense summer day in 1835 Japan. The country’s reigning Go player, Honinbo Jowa, took his seat across a board from a 25-year-old prodigy by the name of Akaboshi…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "Weapons, or Other Things the Parents Have Specifically Forbidden" https://t.co/Nwq7NAvMvU

  

  October 26 2017, 8:04am | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 16 2017, 4:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Is a mission to Mars morally defensible given today’s real needs? |…

  There are good reasons to worry about the future of humanity. Do we have a future, and if so, how much and what kind? For most people, it’s easier to feel…

  October 11 2017, 5:08pm | Comments

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