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Bookmark How I'm Decolonizing My Sci-Fi Reading | Book Riot
As bookish people, we are all mostly aware on some level that the diversity of the publishing industry doesn’t reflect the diversity of the country, much less the English-speaking world.

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
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BREAKING: Person who 'doesn't know what to believe anymore' still leaning towards disinformation

February 27 2022, 9:25am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: "We see something like a dreamscape." Susan Stewart (Public Domain Review, 02/09/2022), "A Paper Archaeology: Piranesi's Ruinous Fantasias": "the grotteschi--their broken statues, columns, tombs, roundels, reliefs, herms, cornucopias, shells, fasces, cameos, trumpets, bones, skulls, chains, mooring rings, and urns; their half-erased or faint inscriptions, rosettes, portraits, egg-and-dart moldings; their…

February 9 2022, 4:43pm | Comments
Bookmark A potential escape from Roko’s basilisk (Interconnected)
Earth’s Black Box will record every step we take towards this catastrophe. Hundreds of data sets, measurements and interactions relating to the health of our planet will be continuously collected and…

January 10 2022, 3:51pm | Comments
Bookmark How the game of Go explains China’s aggression towards India | The…
IN THE ANCIENT Chinese game of weiqi, better known in the West as Go, the objective is not to knock out your opponent.

November 25 2021, 1:51am | Comments
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Syllabus Cache MYCOTA
General Watch A. Fantastic Fungi, Louis Schwartzberg (2019) B. Let things Rot, Mateo Barrenengoa (2021) Listen A. Welcome to Mushroom Hour B. Mushroom Revival Read A. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake B. The Mushroom at the End of…

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Bookmark Viruses may exist ‘elsewhere in the universe’, warns scientist | Infectious diseases…
The Covid pandemic has already turned life as we know it upside down – and no doubt prompted some people to want to leave the planet. Now a leading scientist has…

September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Alien Dreams: The Surprisingly Long History of Speculation About Extraterrestrials | The…
The idea that other worlds might be home to alien beings has been part of our thought for as long as we have been looking skyward. To feel small, all we…

August 17 2021, 7:51am | Comments
Bookmark Please Stop Calling Things Archives | Perspectives on History | AHA
Various disciplinary “archival turns” over the course of the past few decades have resulted in a tendency towards the over-casual use of the word “archive” as a shorthand to refer to,…

March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments
Bookmark Humans Can't Contain Superintelligent Machines | Super AI
In a new study, researchers from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Human Development say they’ve shown that an artificial intelligence in the category known as “superintelligent” would be impossible for humans…

March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments
Bookmark NASA warns alien life may not be fuckable - The Beaverton
WASHINGTON – Following a recent uptick in UFO interest, NASA cautioned curious citizens against the notion that extraterrestrial life will be sexually desirable. Mrs.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Dougal Dixon’s After Man, the Initial Pitch Document — Tetrapod Zoology
There can’t be many visitors here who are unaware of Dougal Dixon and his 1981 book After Man (Dixon 1981), the work which effectively started the entire Speculative Zoology (or SpecZoo)…

January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments
Reddit Have you read any scifi that you found overly disturbing? I like weird scifi, and sometimes I am in the mood for scifi that makes me uncomfortable. I don't necessarily mean horror or weird Lovecraftian fiction (not a fan) but just really dark scifi. So what are the weirdest, most unsettling scifi books…

December 23 2020, 10:31am | Comments
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Bookmark Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual…
Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler*, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of gender as performance.

October 9 2020, 12:13am | Comments
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Algorithms of war: surprise!

October 7 2020, 3:01pm | Comments
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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…

August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments
Podcast Cache Zuboff is a PSYOP
Cold open: Agent Zuboff receives her mission. Main show: We politically cancel Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, for advancing / mainstreaming a reactionary critique. Surveillance capitalism is not a “rogue mutation” of a normal…

August 25 2020, 4:40pm | Comments
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Bookmark Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? - Los Angeles Review of Books
IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an unacknowledged…

August 11 2020, 10:13pm | 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
Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

July 26 2020, 2:13am | Comments
Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

July 25 2020, 10:13pm | Comments
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Bookmark ‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists –…
Australia’s top climate scientist says “we are already deep into the trajectory towards collapse” of civilisation, which may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15 known global climate tipping points…

June 30 2020, 7:13pm | Comments
Bookmark When Disaster Can't Be Pictured
What can our awareness of the immediate present gain from the study of old visual art? At this time, when we need all of the help we can get, that hard…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic - Scientific…
As a clinical geneticist, Paul James is accustomed to discussing some of the most delicate issues with his patients. But in early 2010, he found himself having a particularly awkward conversation…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark Is DNA Hardware or Software? - Grow by Ginkgo
In mid-January, a group of computer scientists and biologists from the University of Vermont, Tufts, and Harvard announced that they had created an entirely new life form — xenobots, the world’s…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Syllabus Cache The Black Anarchism Reader
In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by…

June 3 2020, 11:52am | Comments

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