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• Bookmark The Moral Imperative of Human Spaceflight | Grand Strategy: The View from…

  The text below is a paper I wrote to correspond to my presentation at the first 100YSS Symposium in 2011. 0. Preamble1. The case against civilization2. The evils of civilization3. The…

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  The concrete space of the physical mark

  

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• Instagram The moment on Friday when Morehshin found her inner sloth

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• Metafilter MeFi: BadBadNotGood: the kids are alright (and jazz isn't dead) Back in December 2011, three kids (none over 21) who were studying jazz bonded over their love of hip-hop, performed a live cover of Gucci Mane's "Lemonade". It was noisy and jammy, but jazzy, and the crowd loved it. The trio followed up…

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• Bookmark Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction - The…

  In 1968, Samuel Delany attended the third annual Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

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  The Ersatz Meatspace

  

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• Bookmark The Dark Mountain Manifesto: A Brief Review | Post-futurum

  “The machine is stuttering and the engineers are in panic. They are wondering if perhaps they do not understand it as well as they imagined. They are wondering whether they are…

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  "Do monsters really exist? Surely they must, for if they did not, how could we?"

  

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• Bookmark Fan Is A Tool-Using Animal—dConstruct Conference Talk

  This is the written version of a , at the dConstruct conference in Brighton, England. In 1967, Gene Roddenberry launched a TV show that had a massive cultural impact. While it…

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• Tumblr This sims mod lets you wear a bathtub as a hat which will still...

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• Bookmark Anthropocene: On the Substance of a New Idea

  In February 2000, Paul J. Crutzen erupted at a scientific conference in Mexico. Five years previously, the Dutch-born atmospheric chemist had been awarded the Nobel Prize for being one of the…

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• Bookmark How the Biggest, Most Expensive Oil Spill in History Changed Nothing at…

  A hulking rig is engulfed in flame. It’s sinking, spitting out a giant plume of smoke in the process. A firing squad of rescue ships are dousing it with ocean spray.…

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• Bookmark Constructor theory solves the riddle of life – Chiara Marletto – Aeon

  Living things have puzzled and challenged us since the dawn of our species. Even in the light of our modern scientific understanding, they seem remarkable.

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• Bookmark Can You Get Through These 17 GIFs Of Massive Zits Being Popped…

  The face at the end of this relief bringing squeeze says it all. 2. There’s just something soothing about watching these things get drained. imgur.com 3. Doesn’t this make you feel…

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  Let’s say someone successfully cloned human ancestors. Then what? Are they like chimps, to be put in a zoo or a nature reserve? Do they need carers? Should we enroll them…

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  The fantastic open essay edited live by @therourke at @fig2london is now archived here: t.co/h5n6DVEnK6 t.co/chP5Tz8Jc2

  

  July 23 2015, 10:04am | Comments

• Bookmark I. Welcome to the Anthropocene!

  “In a single lifetime we have grown into a phenomenal global force. We move more sediment and rock annually than all natural processes such as erosion and rivers. We manage three…

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• Additivism One artist’s mission to 3D-print the artifacts that ISIS...

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• Metafilter MeFi: "Where's My Cut?": On Unpaid Emotional Labor Housework is not work. Sex work is not work. Emotional work is not work. Why? Because they don't take effort? No, because women are supposed to provide them uncompensated, out of the goodness of our hearts.

  July 15 2015, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Orion Magazine | Dark Ecology

  Take the only tree that’s left, Stuff it up the hole in your culture. Retreat to the desert, and fight.

  July 11 2015, 4:53pm | Comments

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  Leaves 'the arts'; becomes full time nihilist.

  

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• Bookmark Borrowing From the Future: The Challenge of Posthumanism

  From Reza Negarastani's blog: It is through this operative fog that some of the more insidious mechanisms of neoliberal capitalism are directly plugged into the cognitive infrastructure under the guise of…

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• Bookmark A welcome dose of environmental optimism - environment - 04 July 2015…

  From rainforest revival and green technology to social changes, the age of humans is not necessarily a one-way ticket to eco-disaster, argue three new books Will more of the world's cities…

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  Looks like it's plastic for lunch. For the first time, plankton have been caught on camera munching on tiny pieces of plastic. Verity White from Five Films and her team captured…

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• Bookmark GynePunk, the cyborg witches of DIY gynecology : Makery

  The Catalan collective GynePunk wants to decolonize the female body. To this end, it is developing first aid gynecological tools, for socially disadvantaged women, refugees, sex workers. But also for themselves.

  July 7 2015, 4:20pm | Comments

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• Bookmark The Moral Imperative of Human Spaceflight | Grand Strategy: The View from…

  The text below is a paper I wrote to correspond to my presentation at the first 100YSS Symposium in 2011. 0. Preamble1. The case against civilization2. The evils of civilization3. The…

  August 21 2015, 12:36pm | Comments

• Twitter

  The concrete space of the physical mark

  

  August 18 2015, 3:15pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 18 2015, 8:42am | Comments

• Instagram The moment on Friday when Morehshin found her inner sloth

  August 16 2015, 7:35pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 16 2015, 9:31am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 10 2015, 4:07am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: BadBadNotGood: the kids are alright (and jazz isn't dead) Back in December 2011, three kids (none over 21) who were studying jazz bonded over their love of hip-hop, performed a live cover of Gucci Mane's "Lemonade". It was noisy and jammy, but jazzy, and the crowd loved it. The trio followed up…

  August 8 2015, 3:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction - The…

  In 1968, Samuel Delany attended the third annual Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

  August 4 2015, 7:30am | Comments

• Twitter

  The Ersatz Meatspace

  

  August 1 2015, 1:30am | Comments

• Bookmark The Dark Mountain Manifesto: A Brief Review | Post-futurum

  “The machine is stuttering and the engineers are in panic. They are wondering if perhaps they do not understand it as well as they imagined. They are wondering whether they are…

  July 30 2015, 6:21pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "Do monsters really exist? Surely they must, for if they did not, how could we?"

  

  July 27 2015, 6:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Fan Is A Tool-Using Animal—dConstruct Conference Talk

  This is the written version of a , at the dConstruct conference in Brighton, England. In 1967, Gene Roddenberry launched a TV show that had a massive cultural impact. While it…

  July 27 2015, 1:24am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 26 2015, 4:28pm | Comments

• Tumblr This sims mod lets you wear a bathtub as a hat which will still...

  July 26 2015, 1:27pm | Comments

• Twitter

  the internet has everything going for it

  

  July 26 2015, 11:15am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 26 2015, 1:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Anthropocene: On the Substance of a New Idea

  In February 2000, Paul J. Crutzen erupted at a scientific conference in Mexico. Five years previously, the Dutch-born atmospheric chemist had been awarded the Nobel Prize for being one of the…

  July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments

• Bookmark How the Biggest, Most Expensive Oil Spill in History Changed Nothing at…

  A hulking rig is engulfed in flame. It’s sinking, spitting out a giant plume of smoke in the process. A firing squad of rescue ships are dousing it with ocean spray.…

  July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Constructor theory solves the riddle of life – Chiara Marletto – Aeon

  Living things have puzzled and challenged us since the dawn of our species. Even in the light of our modern scientific understanding, they seem remarkable.

  July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Can You Get Through These 17 GIFs Of Massive Zits Being Popped…

  The face at the end of this relief bringing squeeze says it all. 2. There’s just something soothing about watching these things get drained. imgur.com 3. Doesn’t this make you feel…

  July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments

• Bookmark If We Cloned Early Humans, Should We Put Them in a Zoo…

  Let’s say someone successfully cloned human ancestors. Then what? Are they like chimps, to be put in a zoo or a nature reserve? Do they need carers? Should we enroll them…

  July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The fantastic open essay edited live by @therourke at @fig2london is now archived here: t.co/h5n6DVEnK6 t.co/chP5Tz8Jc2

  

  July 23 2015, 10:04am | Comments

• Bookmark I. Welcome to the Anthropocene!

  “In a single lifetime we have grown into a phenomenal global force. We move more sediment and rock annually than all natural processes such as erosion and rivers. We manage three…

  July 19 2015, 5:57am | Comments

• Additivism One artist’s mission to 3D-print the artifacts that ISIS...

  July 16 2015, 9:48am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: "Where's My Cut?": On Unpaid Emotional Labor Housework is not work. Sex work is not work. Emotional work is not work. Why? Because they don't take effort? No, because women are supposed to provide them uncompensated, out of the goodness of our hearts.

  July 15 2015, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Orion Magazine | Dark Ecology

  Take the only tree that’s left, Stuff it up the hole in your culture. Retreat to the desert, and fight.

  July 11 2015, 4:53pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Leaves 'the arts'; becomes full time nihilist.

  

  July 9 2015, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Borrowing From the Future: The Challenge of Posthumanism

  From Reza Negarastani's blog: It is through this operative fog that some of the more insidious mechanisms of neoliberal capitalism are directly plugged into the cognitive infrastructure under the guise of…

  July 8 2015, 5:51am | Comments

• Tumblr 3D Additivism: You have 3 weeks left to…1. Devise a weird...

  July 8 2015, 3:53am | Comments

• Bookmark A welcome dose of environmental optimism - environment - 04 July 2015…

  From rainforest revival and green technology to social changes, the age of humans is not necessarily a one-way ticket to eco-disaster, argue three new books Will more of the world's cities…

  July 7 2015, 4:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Plankton snacking on plastic caught on camera for the first time -…

  Looks like it's plastic for lunch. For the first time, plankton have been caught on camera munching on tiny pieces of plastic. Verity White from Five Films and her team captured…

  July 7 2015, 4:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark GynePunk, the cyborg witches of DIY gynecology : Makery

  The Catalan collective GynePunk wants to decolonize the female body. To this end, it is developing first aid gynecological tools, for socially disadvantaged women, refugees, sex workers. But also for themselves.

  July 7 2015, 4:20pm | Comments

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