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Syllabus Cache Joyful Militancy | The Anarchist Library
To survive. Just keep it alive Like the moment when I first heard Gil Scott-Heron, I knew upon first read that I would return to this book.

March 3 2021, 12:36am | Comments
Bookmark When Futurism Led to Fascism—and Why It Could Happen Again | WIRED
In 1909, a poet named Filippo Marinetti was driving along in his brand new Fiat when he came across two cyclists in the road. Marinetti swerved to avoid hitting his fellow…

January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Rethinking Artificial Intelligence through Feminism | CCCB LAB
Technology surrounds us and is everywhere, but how this technology is made and who really benefits from it and who does not, are still important questions to be investigated.

January 8 2021, 11:36pm | Comments
Bookmark How Memes, Lulz, and "Ironic" Bigotry Won the Internet - The Atlantic
In the 2010s, Hitler memes and “ironic” racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously? Updated at 4:00 a.m. ET on Oct. 4, 2020.

October 10 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Bookmark Geoengineering Is the Only Solution to Our Climate Calamities | WIRED
Parag Khanna is the author of Connectography (2016) and The Future is Asian (2019). Michael Ferrari is managing partner at Atlas Research Innovations and a senior fellow at the Wharton School.

October 9 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Syllabus Cache aplusa.org
Call us Sara and Deb or Debbie, respectively, both she/her. sara.hendren@olin.edu / debbie.chachra@olin.edu Sara’s office hours are here, updated regularly. Deb’s office hours are by appointment.

September 9 2020, 7:59am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen
What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

September 9 2020, 3:59am | 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
Bookmark Opinion | They Want Your Attention. Don’t Give It to Them. -…
We need to be more disciplined about feeding the trolls. Last year, I wrote a column about the U.S. World Cup team and the unexpected lesson it taught us on its…

July 26 2020, 12:13pm | 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 The Conspiracy Singularity Has Arrived
The document was a single, bright red sheet of paper, crowded with close-set black type. Different kinds of lines and arrows connected in wild formulations, linking George Soros with the Illuminati,…

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
Bookmark The Conspiracy Singularity Has Arrived
The document was a single, bright red sheet of paper, crowded with close-set black type. Different kinds of lines and arrows connected in wild formulations, linking George Soros with the Illuminati,…

July 25 2020, 10:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Revolution or Ruin - Journal #110 June 2020 - e-flux
We know how the first paragraph begins. We’ve read about the changing climate for over twenty years, infrequently at first and then daily until we couldn’t deny it any longer. The…

June 30 2020, 7:13pm | Comments
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 Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto – Indigenous Action Media
Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism? We live the future of a past that is not our own. It is a history…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub
In Antoine de Saint Exupéry's tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed.…

June 16 2020, 5:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto – Indigenous Action Media
Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism? We live the future of a past that is not our own. It is a history…

June 3 2020, 11:50am | 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
Bookmark QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic
American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase. If you were an adherent, no one would be able to tell. You would look like any other American. You could be…

May 22 2020, 1:13pm | Comments
Bookmark QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic
American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase. If you were an adherent, no one would be able to tell. You would look like any other American. You could be…

May 22 2020, 6:13am | 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
Syllabus Cache Decolonising Utopia Resource List – Utopian Acts
This collection of resources is a collaborative effort which came out of the Utopian Studies Conference 2019 held at Monash University in Prato, Italy.

January 29 2020, 6:51am | Comments
Bookmark White Supremacy and Artificial Intelligence - Yes! Magazine
In her new book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, Ruha Benjamin breaks down the “New Jim Code,” technology design that promises a utopian future but serves racial…

December 2 2019, 6:25pm | Comments
Bookmark The Psychology of Paranoid Irony | transmediale
Beginning with the figure of Roko’s Basilisk, a hypothetical vengeful future AI that emerged in online forums, Ana Teixeira Pinto launches her analysis of the psychological state engendered by online interaction…

November 11 2019, 6:25am | 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
Bookmark Opinion | Good for Google, Bad for America - The New York…
At its core, artificial intelligence is a military technology. Why is the company sharing it with a rival? Mr. Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor.

August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Dark deconstructions of children's TV shows/characters? I've read fantastic, dark - often very political analyses - of TV shows like Thomas the Tank Engine, Teletubbies, Mr.Blobby, and Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch.... but I'd like to find some more. What other dystopian, playful, surreal, philosophical, deconstructive readings of kid's…

August 18 2019, 8:47am | Comments
Bookmark Appropriating the Alien: A Critique of Xenofeminism | Mute
The Xenofeminist Manifesto claims, among many things, rationalism and technology as core to a renewed futurist feminist project. However, given the provenance of its moniker and its 'pro-enlightenment' position, Annie Goh asks, WTF…

August 6 2019, 11:11am | Comments
Bookmark How Do You Spot a Deepfake? It Might Not Matter
A shadow looms over the 2020 election: Deepfakes! The newish video-editing technology (or really, host of technologies) used to seamlessly paste one person’s face on another’s body, has activated a panic…

July 1 2019, 7:34am | Comments
Bookmark The White Pube | Are White Girls Capable of Making Art Not…
Are White Girls Capable of Making Art That’s Not About themselves?? Are White Girls Capable of Making Art That’s Not About themselves??

July 1 2019, 7:34am | Comments
Bookmark Closing the Loop – The New Inquiry
“The black female’s body needs less to be rescued from the masculine “gaze” than to be sprung from a historic script surrounding her with signification while at the same time, and…

July 1 2019, 7:34am | Comments

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