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July 3 2016, 1:46am | Comments
Bookmark Even the World's Deepest Trench Is Full of Garbage Now
The Mariana Trench is the deepest spot in the ocean—and it’s home to some strange sights, sounds, and creatures. But there’s one thing down there that’s very familiar: a whole bunch…

June 20 2016, 1:29pm | Comments
Bookmark When Robots Are An Instrument Of Male Desire - The Establishment
By the time she started saying “Hitler was right I hate the jews,” people had started to realize that there was something wrong with Tay.

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark Are Humans the Greatest Things Made by the Human Hand? - Facts…
What a waste are two thumbs on the space bar. There they sit, nearly flaccid, punctuating the end of each word, awaiting the call to crack stone or to use sharp flakes…

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species…
The things we create define us, as a culture and as a species. Yet, so often, as we hurtle into the future, our creations seem to take on a life of…

April 20 2016, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark The Emperor’s Love of Slime Mold | Popular Science
Slime mold—a living network of tendrils found on rotting wood and other plant debris—is easily one of the strangest things alive. Neither plant, nor fungus, it’s a collection of individual cells…

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark The Minecraft Generation - NYTimes.com
Jordan wanted to build an unpredictable trap. An 11-year-old in dark horn-rimmed glasses, Jordan is a devotee of Minecraft, the computer game in which you make things out of virtual blocks,…

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 How to Make a Bot That Isn't Racist | Motherboard
Really, really racist. The thing is, this was all very much preventable. I talked to some creators of Twitter bots about @TayandYou, and the consensus was that Microsoft had fallen far…

March 31 2016, 2:36am | 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 AlphaGo, Lee Sedol, and the Reassuring Future of Humans and Machines -…
Midway through the first of five recent matches between Lee Sedol, a top-ranked professional Go player, and AlphaGo, a computer program conceived by Google DeepMind, an odd thing happened: Lee’s jaw…

March 16 2016, 12:07am | Comments
Bookmark Google's New AI Can Tell Where Your Photo Was Taken Without Using…
In case you didn’t already feel like Google was a creepy stalker, its artificial intelligence tools are rapidly crossing over into uncanny. The latest one is PlaNet, a new deep-learning machine…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Additivism Hyperallergic Interview: “Your Shiny Plastic Future Is a Load of Crap”
“Your Shiny Plastic Future Is a Load of Crap”: #Additivism interviewed for HyperallergicGretta Louw interviewed us for Hyperallergic:It was hugely important to us that the manifesto undermine the position from which it is situated. We tried to show the limits and contradictions in our…

February 15 2016, 8:23am | Comments
Additivism #Additivism selected for Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research 2016
Additivism selected for Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research 2016 We are extremely excited to announce that our project #Additivism was accepted as recipient of the Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research 2016. You can read the jury statement here:Morehshin Allahyari’s and…

January 29 2016, 10:37am | Comments
Bookmark We need to talk about TED | Benjamin Bratton | Opinion |…
In our culture, talking about the future is sometimes a polite way of saying things about the present that would otherwise be rude or risky. But have you ever wondered why…

January 14 2016, 5:42am | Comments
Bookmark The Essence of Peopling
Sarah Perry is a contributing editor of Ribbonfarm. Nouns for human beings – “people” or “person” – conjure in the mind a snapshot of the surface appearance of humans. Using nouns…

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
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December 12 2015, 9:53am | Comments
Bookmark The Last Word On Nothing | The Internet Is a Series of…
Like many of you, I suspect, I have a love hate relationship with the internet. I love the access it gives me to all sorts of information, and how it connects…

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark Life as a drone operator: 'Ever step on ants and never give…
When Michael Haas, a former senior airman with the US air force, looks back on the missions he flew over Afghanistan and other conflict zones in a six-year career operating military…

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark What's the Point If We Can't Have Fun? - The Baffler
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…

November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments
Bookmark Accelerationism Without Accelerationism | The Disorder Of Things
The second post in our forum on Nick and Alex Williams’ Inventing the Future, from Steven Shaviro. Steven is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He blogs at The…

November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Annotating online content + read later: new app solutions? I read a lot of content from articles/essays I save online. Sometimes I want to annotate these articles and organise them for research purposes. At the moment the best way to do this is Evernote, but I find the iPad / Android app…

November 6 2015, 3:04am | Comments
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November 3 2015, 4:45pm | Comments
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November 1 2015, 9:29am | Comments
Bookmark The Man Who Laughed at Surveillance Technology: Mishka Henner on His Jarring…
The scariest thing about Mishka Henner’s “Feedlots” photographs is that they are so beautiful. In one photograph from the series, a pool of bright red swirls interrupts a field of greyish boxes.

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark Readers Respond to Article on the Death of George Bell
One person, a self-described “lone wolf,” admitted that dying alone was his greatest fear. Another urged readers to consider the things that give life heft and depth, the things that keep…

October 19 2015, 9:04am | Comments
Bookmark B.J. Novak's New App: The Perfect Thing for a Moment Obsessed With…
The 10 Commandments. The 95 Theses. The 127 Hours and the 27 Dresses and the 10 Things I Hate About You. The mix tape. The menu. The card catalog. The grocery…

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark How a Hacked Virus Is Bringing Us Closer to Artificial Photosynthesis |…
The question persists: Is a virus alive? Or is it simply a clever organic machine? It lacks most all of things we associate with "life": the ability to reproduce (outside of…

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Additivism Il ritorno del futuro
Il ritorno del futuro A long piece - in Italian - about the current state of the future. With reflections on #Additivism, #Xenofeminism, #Chthulucene, #PostInternet: In true spirit of Marinetti, additivism chasing an ideal post-human to the edge of pornography; technological fetishism in their…

October 5 2015, 10:40pm | Comments
YouTube

September 18 2015, 7:56am | Comments
Ask Metafilter The Footprint on Crusoe's Island & its use in critical theory The single appearance of the footprint in Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe, is perhaps one of the most famous events in all of literature. I am interested in who has referenced it, and for what ends, especially in critical theory. I also…

September 9 2015, 8:03am | Comments

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