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​CyberFeminism \ˈsī-bərˈfe-mə-ni-zəm \ : A wave of thought, criticism, and art that emerged in the early 1990s, galvanizing a generation of feminists, before bursting along with the dot-com bubble.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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(Originally appearing in the book "Intercalations 2: Land & Animal & Non-Animal" Co-edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin. Published by K. Verlag and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.…

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In the movie Sliding Doors (1998), a woman named Helen, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, rushes to catch a train on the London Underground, but just misses it, watching helplessly from the…

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Extinction is an inevitable consequence of evolution. Environments change, new species arrive and crowd out the old, any number of factors make a formerly successful species unsuccessful.

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Allan Sekula, Gas Terminal, Barcelona (2008) from the series "Methane for all.

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The term ‘Anthropocene’ has entered the climate change debate, and the question is whether it should stay there. It neatly encapsulates the idea that the Holocene—a scientific term referring to the…

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In my past postings, I’ve pointed out how the Anthropocene thesis can be roundly criticized for its assorted failings.

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The so-called ‘Dylann Roof manifesto’ – the white supremacist material allegedly posted on a website by the Charleston church shooter – is only the latest example in a long line of…

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In the radiant blue chamber of the ZPrinter 850, a skull is born. An ink-jet arm moves across a bed of gypsum powder, depositing a layer of liquid that binds the…

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If Baudrillard observed the disappearance of tools adapted to the human form in favour of the button[1], we will observe the disappearance of the button in favour of fully-automatic predictive operation…

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Male bodies are seen as the default in biology. One artist is working towards helping us see the alternatives. In psychology, the homunculus is a visual representation of the sensory and…

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It’s a bold gesture, to be sure: to insist on the conjugation of lived experience with stringent formal abstraction, on the compatibility and even identity in the last instance of intersectionality…

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Decelerationism leans gingerly towards a future that is basically more of the same, a mod­ern­ity that's going to generate itself no matter what we blog. 1. At the beginning of the second decade…

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​CyberFeminism \ˈsī-bərˈfe-mə-ni-zəm \ : A wave of thought, criticism, and art that emerged in the early 1990s, galvanizing a generation of feminists, before bursting along with the dot-com bubble.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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.

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(Originally appearing in the book "Intercalations 2: Land & Animal & Non-Animal" Co-edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin. Published by K. Verlag and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.…

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Extinction is an inevitable consequence of evolution. Environments change, new species arrive and crowd out the old, any number of factors make a formerly successful species unsuccessful.

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A person sees this soon-to-be pornographic gif as an attractive blonde addressing the camera as she’s about to pull a man’s shorts down. A computer sees it as a portrait of…

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The term ‘Anthropocene’ has entered the climate change debate, and the question is whether it should stay there. It neatly encapsulates the idea that the Holocene—a scientific term referring to the…

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In my past postings, I’ve pointed out how the Anthropocene thesis can be roundly criticized for its assorted failings.

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The so-called ‘Dylann Roof manifesto’ – the white supremacist material allegedly posted on a website by the Charleston church shooter – is only the latest example in a long line of…

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In the radiant blue chamber of the ZPrinter 850, a skull is born. An ink-jet arm moves across a bed of gypsum powder, depositing a layer of liquid that binds the…

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The model, developed by a team at Anglia Ruskin University’s Global Sustainability Institute, does not account for society reacting to escalating crises by changing global behaviour and policies.

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Male bodies are seen as the default in biology. One artist is working towards helping us see the alternatives. In psychology, the homunculus is a visual representation of the sensory and…

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Decelerationism leans gingerly towards a future that is basically more of the same, a mod­ern­ity that's going to generate itself no matter what we blog. 1. At the beginning of the second decade…

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The student of nonlinear dynamics immediately thinks of additivism as a conservative concept. In a linear system, the total effect of the combined action of two or more operations is merely…