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Bookmark Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait - The…
Who are you, and what are you doing here? You, there in the mirror, there in the lens of your phone: What do you see? In the eyes of us poor…

October 4 2020, 11:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Revolutionary archaeology reveals the deepest possible Anthropocene | Aeon Essays
Humanity’s transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is one of the most important developments in human and Earth history. Human societies, plant and animal populations, the makeup of the atmosphere,…

October 2 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark Capitalist Catastrophism | ROAR Magazine
Is Mark Fisher’s “capitalist realism” this generation’s “end of history thesis”? For nearly thirty years Francis Fukuyama’s contention that “Western liberal democracy” represents “the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution” has…

August 9 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Syllabus Cache The Black Curriculum
The Black Curriculum is a project that aims to teach Black history all year round in the school year, to 11 to 16-year-olds.

June 3 2020, 11:59am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Black Revolutionaries in the United States | communists in situ
Communist Interventions Vol. 2 (2016) Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

June 3 2020, 9:59am | 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
Bookmark The Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than You Think | Psychology Today
Ask yourself the following: Would you feel confident taking an over-the-counter medication if you were 98 percent sure it would work safely? Would you dare to gamble all your savings in…

March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments
Wikipedia Survivorship bias - Wikipedia Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to false conclusions in…

February 23 2020, 12:37pm | Comments
Bookmark BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on Making the World a Meme
As the decade began, there were reasons to be optimistic: America had elected its first black president, and despite a global recession just two years earlier, the world hadn’t cascaded into…

January 1 2020, 6:16am | 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 Games blamed for moral decline and addiction throughout history
Video games are often blamed for unemployment, violence in society and addiction – including by partisan politicians raising moral concerns. Blaming video games for social or moral decline might feel like…

October 14 2019, 9:31am | Comments
Syllabus Cache History of Computing Timeline
As part of a series of posts that I’ve been calling “Open Source PhD,” I’m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for…

July 27 2019, 4:56pm | Comments
Bookmark Daddy Issues | Katherine Angel | Granta
In the awful, wearying months in which Harvey Weinstein’s ritualistic mistreatment of women was being recounted daily in the media, I found myself, like so many others, wondering and talking about…

July 2 2019, 6:44pm | Comments
Bookmark The Day the Dinosaurs Died | The New Yorker
If, on a certain evening about sixty-six million years ago, you had stood somewhere in North America and looked up at the sky, you would have soon made out what appeared…

March 31 2019, 6:50am | Comments
Bookmark America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’ - BBC News
Colonisation of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate. That's the conclusion of scientists from University College London, UK.

February 4 2019, 6:52pm | Comments
Bookmark There be monsters: from cabinets of curiosity to demons within | Aeon…
In 2003, a team of scientists in China managed to create embryos containing a mix of rabbit and human DNA. Most of the biological matter was human, while the rabbit DNA…

November 7 2018, 7:08am | Comments
Bookmark Exploring The Digital Ruins Of 'Second Life' - Digg
I logged into "Second Life" in the year 2018 A.D. It still exists, sort of. Residents and businesses began fleeing for more popular social networks long ago. Vast acres of land…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark Colonialism did not just create slavery: it changed geology | Science |…
It brought riches to Britain and many other European nations; played a major role in enslaving more than 10 million Africans; and created the first global markets in cotton, tobacco and…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark Code, Conservation, and Truth – Ben Fino-Radin – Medium
In a recently posted video, Patrick LeMieux(Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis) describes his own material exploration and investigation of Cory Arcangel’s seminal artwork, Super Mario Clouds…

November 20 2017, 11:06am | Comments
Bookmark 50 Years Ago Big Oil Bragged About Being Able To Melt Glaciers,…
Newly-released oil industry documents push back the start date of the world’s most successful disinformation campaign to the 1960s, if not earlier.

September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Decolonizing technology: A reading list | Beatrice Martini – blog
Western culture has long been defining how the world came to existence, its history, and how it works from a perspective which is centred on a Western and white point of view.

May 28 2017, 10:41am | Comments
Bookmark Palmyra and the Political History of Archaeology in Syria: from Colonialists to…
Archaeology was institutionalized by a reification of the past into governmental branding, such as through images of Palmyra on the national currency, or school textbooks. Although Palmyrans wrote and probably spoke…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Are Soas students right to ‘decolonise’ their minds from western philosophers? |…
Outraged headlines erupted when students launched a campaign to challenge the great western philosophers. We went to the source of dissent – London’s School of Oriental and African Studies – to…

March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Impact of Social Sciences – Big data problems we face today can…
In the 19th century, changes in knowledge were facilitated not only by large quantities of new information pouring in from around the world but by shifts in the production, processing and…

February 20 2017, 11:01pm | Comments
Bookmark Writers of Color Continue to Wrestle With Lovecraft’s Racist Legacy | WIRED
H.P. Lovecraft is universally acknowledged as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, and references to his Cthulhu Mythos abound in contemporary culture. But Lovecraft was also…

January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Additivism On Material Entanglements: an Interview with Morehshin Allahyari

December 17 2016, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark Joel Mokyr: Progress Isn't Natural - The Atlantic
Humans invented it—and not that long ago. How and why did the modern world and its unprecedented prosperity begin? Many bookshelves are full of learned tomes by historians, economists, political philosophers…

November 18 2016, 5:30pm | Comments
Bookmark There's Now a Search Engine for Every Animated GIF From GeoCities |…
Remember the good old days™? When Bill Clinton was President, when average monthly rent was around $645, and when Yahoo’s acquisition of GeoCities shot the dream of personal websites into the…

October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments
Bookmark How the Cyberfeminists Worked to Liberate Women through the Internet
They wrote their own Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century (1991) in homage to Haraway, presented as an 18-foot-long billboard, which was exhibited at various galleries across Australia.

October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Books on Food and its relation to Colonialism/Imperialism Are there any good books telling the story of imperialism/colonialism through food? Since reading Guns, Germs and Steel many years ago I have been fascinated with the origins of world food, especially when it highlights untold histories of civilisation. This article on 'How…

July 13 2016, 5:00am | Comments
Bookmark "She wore a USB cord instead of a necklace": whatever happened to…
The movement was young, energetic, educated, and art school-heavy. Above all it was “positive”: both cyber-positive and sex-positive. Sometime in the late 1990s, I met someone else called Joanna Walsh. The fact that…

May 27 2016, 12:30pm | Comments

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