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• 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…

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• Syllabus Cache Probably the Only List of Artist Films You’ll Ever Need…

  We’ll be honest. The initial plan was to write a critical gaze over art docs. Not the schlocky biopics, or dewy-eyed reminisces of certain “scenes”, eras or places, but more straightforward (if beautiful) documentaries.

  April 23 2020, 9:34am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Probably the Only List of Artist Films You’ll Ever Need…

  We’ll be honest. The initial plan was to write a critical gaze over art docs. Not the schlocky biopics, or dewy-eyed reminisces of certain “scenes”, eras or places, but more straightforward (if beautiful) documentaries.

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• Bookmark Why 'The Fly' Is Still a Body Horror Masterpiece

  The set-up for David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly is straightforward enough. The handsome, eccentric scientist Seth (Jeff Goldblum) is trying to perfect a teleportation device.

  March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark As Sea Levels Rise, Scientists Offer a Bold Idea: Dam the North…

  A proposal to build two huge barriers — one that would connect Norway to Scotland, the other France to England — was described as a warning about the urgency of the…

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• Bookmark A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you…

  Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life – money, power, jobs, university admission – should be…

  January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

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• Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…

  Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

  November 13 2019, 5:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence

  In 2007, Kenneth Stanley, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida, was playing with Picbreeder, a website he and his students had created, when an alien became a race…

  November 9 2019, 10:51am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about…

  Prof Stuart Russell wrote the book on artificial intelligence back in 1995, when the next few decades of AI were uncertain. Sitting down with Ian Sample, he talks about his latest book, which warns of a dystopian future…

  October 18 2019, 5:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Children of the Wicker Man | Evan Millar and John Semley

  In his Commentaries on the Gallic War, circa 58-50 BC, Julius Caesar reported, in third person, on his conquest of the German and Celtic tribes that unsuccessfully resisted the advances of…

  October 15 2019, 9:31am | Comments

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• Syllabus Cache Towards a Viable Planetarity: The Terraforming Reading List — Strelka Mag

  Applications for the new program directed by design theorist Benjamin Bratton are being accepted until October 31. Find out more about The Terraforming here. Benjamin Bratton’s latest book lays the groundwork for the upcoming research project at Strelka…

  September 24 2019, 1:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Collecting in the Age of Digital Reproduction - Casey REAS - Medium

  In the art market, almost everything sold is an object such as a drawing, a painting, a sculpture, an installation, or a photograph, but there are some exceptions. These deviations may…

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Hong Kong winner of John W. Campbell sci-fi award stands by ‘fascist’…

  Hong Kong science fiction author Jeannette Ng became the city’s first to receive the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer last Sunday in Dublin, Ireland, but not without calling…

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Links and Resources for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers |…

  Useful Resources for F&SF; Writers: Awards Posts for F&SF; Writers Book Recommendations for F&SF; Writers: Craft Essays for F&SF; Writers Career-focused Essays for F&SF; Writers Story Prompts for F&SF; Writers #sfwapro

  September 2 2019, 7:59am | Comments

• Bookmark The Downward Spiral: The Chimera Manifesto | Spike Art Magazine

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  They let us fuck anything in the warehouse

  

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• Bookmark Extinction Rebellion: Not the Struggle we Need, Pt. 1

  The first of a three-part critique of Extinction Rebellion, focussing on their attitudes towards the police, legal system and prison. Out of the Woods are utterly convinced of the need for…

  July 20 2019, 11:10am | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

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• Bookmark Scientists Are Warning That We Absolutely Must Not Farm Octopuses

  There's no denying that keeping livestock has deeply benefited humanity over the millennia. But, while sheep and cows may have adapted well to farm life, there's one animal humans like to…

  May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Too Human — Real Life

  As I was being wheeled out of the post-anesthesia care unit at Mount Sinai, three incisions across my abdomen freshly glued shut and fentanyl warm in my veins, a nurse bustled…

  May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments

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  My sexual normal is cephalopod war

  

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• Bookmark Video Games Are Better Without Characters - The Atlantic

  In the mid-1980s, the easiest way to check out the latest computer games was to go to a bookstore in the mall. Past the John Grisham and the bargain history books…

  May 23 2019, 10:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Towards an anti-fascist AI - danmcquillan.io

  This talk is about some pressing issues with AI that don't usually make the headlines, and why tackling those issues means developing an antifascist AI. When i talk about AI i'm…

  April 17 2019, 7:31am | Comments

• Bookmark C Magazine / Feminisms of the Future, Now: Rethinking Technofeminism and the…

  “Ours is a world in vertigo. It is a world that swarms with technological mediation, interlacing our daily lives with abstraction, virtuality, and complexity.

  April 9 2019, 5:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Cloud Loss Could Add 8 Degrees to Global Warming | Quanta Magazine

  On a 1987 voyage to the Antarctic, the paleoceanographer James Kennett and his crew dropped anchor in the Weddell Sea, drilled into the seabed, and extracted a vertical cylinder of sediment.

  February 27 2019, 7:38pm | Comments

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• 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 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 19 2020, 3:09pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Probably the Only List of Artist Films You’ll Ever Need…

  We’ll be honest. The initial plan was to write a critical gaze over art docs. Not the schlocky biopics, or dewy-eyed reminisces of certain “scenes”, eras or places, but more straightforward (if beautiful) documentaries.

  April 23 2020, 9:34am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Probably the Only List of Artist Films You’ll Ever Need…

  We’ll be honest. The initial plan was to write a critical gaze over art docs. Not the schlocky biopics, or dewy-eyed reminisces of certain “scenes”, eras or places, but more straightforward (if beautiful) documentaries.

  April 23 2020, 2:34am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 21 2020, 10:14am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 13 2020, 7:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Why 'The Fly' Is Still a Body Horror Masterpiece

  The set-up for David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly is straightforward enough. The handsome, eccentric scientist Seth (Jeff Goldblum) is trying to perfect a teleportation device.

  March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark As Sea Levels Rise, Scientists Offer a Bold Idea: Dam the North…

  A proposal to build two huge barriers — one that would connect Norway to Scotland, the other France to England — was described as a warning about the urgency of the…

  February 18 2020, 6:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you…

  Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life – money, power, jobs, university admission – should be…

  January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

  December 2 2019, 7:30am | Comments

• Twitter

  all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began

  

  December 1 2019, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…

  Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

  November 13 2019, 5:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence

  In 2007, Kenneth Stanley, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida, was playing with Picbreeder, a website he and his students had created, when an alien became a race…

  November 9 2019, 10:51am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about…

  Prof Stuart Russell wrote the book on artificial intelligence back in 1995, when the next few decades of AI were uncertain. Sitting down with Ian Sample, he talks about his latest book, which warns of a dystopian future…

  October 18 2019, 5:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Children of the Wicker Man | Evan Millar and John Semley

  In his Commentaries on the Gallic War, circa 58-50 BC, Julius Caesar reported, in third person, on his conquest of the German and Celtic tribes that unsuccessfully resisted the advances of…

  October 15 2019, 9:31am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 4 2019, 11:36am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Towards a Viable Planetarity: The Terraforming Reading List — Strelka Mag

  Applications for the new program directed by design theorist Benjamin Bratton are being accepted until October 31. Find out more about The Terraforming here. Benjamin Bratton’s latest book lays the groundwork for the upcoming research project at Strelka…

  September 24 2019, 1:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Collecting in the Age of Digital Reproduction - Casey REAS - Medium

  In the art market, almost everything sold is an object such as a drawing, a painting, a sculpture, an installation, or a photograph, but there are some exceptions. These deviations may…

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Hong Kong winner of John W. Campbell sci-fi award stands by ‘fascist’…

  Hong Kong science fiction author Jeannette Ng became the city’s first to receive the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer last Sunday in Dublin, Ireland, but not without calling…

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Links and Resources for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers |…

  Useful Resources for F&SF; Writers: Awards Posts for F&SF; Writers Book Recommendations for F&SF; Writers: Craft Essays for F&SF; Writers Career-focused Essays for F&SF; Writers Story Prompts for F&SF; Writers #sfwapro

  September 2 2019, 7:59am | Comments

• Bookmark The Downward Spiral: The Chimera Manifesto | Spike Art Magazine

  This website uses cookies to help us give you the best experience when you visit our website. By continuing to use this website, you consent to our use of these cookies.…

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments

• Twitter

  They let us fuck anything in the warehouse

  

  August 17 2019, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Extinction Rebellion: Not the Struggle we Need, Pt. 1

  The first of a three-part critique of Extinction Rebellion, focussing on their attitudes towards the police, legal system and prison. Out of the Woods are utterly convinced of the need for…

  July 20 2019, 11:10am | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 5 2019, 11:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists Are Warning That We Absolutely Must Not Farm Octopuses

  There's no denying that keeping livestock has deeply benefited humanity over the millennia. But, while sheep and cows may have adapted well to farm life, there's one animal humans like to…

  May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Too Human — Real Life

  As I was being wheeled out of the post-anesthesia care unit at Mount Sinai, three incisions across my abdomen freshly glued shut and fentanyl warm in my veins, a nurse bustled…

  May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  My sexual normal is cephalopod war

  

  May 27 2019, 12:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Video Games Are Better Without Characters - The Atlantic

  In the mid-1980s, the easiest way to check out the latest computer games was to go to a bookstore in the mall. Past the John Grisham and the bargain history books…

  May 23 2019, 10:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Towards an anti-fascist AI - danmcquillan.io

  This talk is about some pressing issues with AI that don't usually make the headlines, and why tackling those issues means developing an antifascist AI. When i talk about AI i'm…

  April 17 2019, 7:31am | Comments

• Bookmark C Magazine / Feminisms of the Future, Now: Rethinking Technofeminism and the…

  “Ours is a world in vertigo. It is a world that swarms with technological mediation, interlacing our daily lives with abstraction, virtuality, and complexity.

  April 9 2019, 5:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Cloud Loss Could Add 8 Degrees to Global Warming | Quanta Magazine

  On a 1987 voyage to the Antarctic, the paleoceanographer James Kennett and his crew dropped anchor in the Weddell Sea, drilled into the seabed, and extracted a vertical cylinder of sediment.

  February 27 2019, 7:38pm | Comments

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