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Bookmark Leaving Herland | The Point Magazine
But even after I overcame my instinct for detachment, I remained wary of the movement’s language, which was a language of binaries: women and men.

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Syllabus Cache The Anthropology of Time: A Reading List In-the-Making | Society…
Given the renewed scholarly attention to time and temporality, we present a reading list on the anthropology of time.

May 29 2022, 6:33am | Comments
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 An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried
Human extinction. The coordinated release of various strains of a human sterilization virus.

October 22 2020, 6:13am | 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
Syllabus Cache Reading List | From the Archive: Readings for a Pandemic
Here at Places, in the Bay Area, we are sheltering in place, and adjusting to changed rhythms and new anxieties as we communicate via Skype or Zoom, check the news obsessively, and find new forms of social solidarity…

April 1 2020, 5:59pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache A Theory-Fiction Reading List – The Wasted World
What even is theory-fiction? In short, it is the intersection of theory and fiction, and also the “dissolution of the opposition itself” (Fisher 1999, p 156).

November 7 2019, 8:54am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Worlds || Fall 2019 - Ahmed Ansari - Medium
This 7 week studio mini will deal with designing at the intersection of three things: developing rich worlds, i.e. experiences and narratives, understanding how different mediums work and what they do, and understanding how genres work in terms…

August 22 2019, 7:47am | Comments
Bookmark The Arrogance of the Anthropocene - The Atlantic
On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch. Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. Or so we’re told.

August 17 2019, 8:05am | 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
Syllabus Cache scholars on feminism and technology, particularly those with cross-cultural and…
Who are your go-to scholars on feminism and technology, particularly those with cross-cultural and non-western perspectives?

July 26 2019, 4:59am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Summer intensive science fiction course

July 8 2019, 11:35am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Readings in AI Ethics - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

June 19 2019, 6:53pm | 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 Crapularity Aesthetics | Making & Breaking
In 2011, a loose group of “grumpy futurists” wrote up an extensive list of “Alternatives to the Singularity” in a collaborative Google Document. “The Singularity”, in popular culture and para-religious belief,…

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Digital Bibliography
AN EVALUATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY: DIGITAL CULTURE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, THE INTERNET, THE WEB By David Abrahamson Northwestern University Prefatory Note: What follows is a discursive compilation of more that four-hundred-and-fifty items, most of fairly recent authorship, united by a common…

January 29 2019, 10:38am | Comments
Bookmark Horror is a dark and piercing reflection of our anxious times |…
In Ray Bradbury’s horror short story, ‘The Next in Line’ (1955), a woman visits the catacombs in Guanajuato, Mexico. Mummified bodies line the walls.

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark CENHS @ Rice! » New Materialism, Environmental Justice, and Digital Sites of…
Below is a shortened version of Annie Culver’s essay that won Honorable Mention in the 2017 Greene Prize for Environmental Writing. Annie is a PhD student in English at Rice University.

September 4 2018, 9:31am | Comments
Bookmark What Is Toxic White Feminism? - When Feminism Is White Supremacy
When I heard about the tragic murder of 18-year-old Nia Wilson, who was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack in Oakland last month, I could feel my heart begin to…

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”
The novella-length piece represents the kind of media commitment that the climate crisis has long deserved but almost never received.

August 7 2018, 6:22pm | Comments
Additivism Casting Code: Reflections on 3D Printing Blog The letterhead of...

July 4 2018, 8:17am | Comments
Bookmark The Neologismcene | Literature, the Humanities, & the World
This particular terminological game is just about up, I think, and it's no surprise that Anthropos has won again. I don't think we'll be using any word but Anthropocene to describe…

May 24 2018, 7:47am | Comments
Bookmark How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era |…
This is what happens when you turn the natural world into a profit-making machine. By and Jason W Moore The most telling symbol of the modern era isn’t the automobile or…

May 8 2018, 4:13am | Comments
Bookmark Leaving Herland | The Point Magazine
But even after I overcame my instinct for detachment, I remained wary of the movement’s language, which was a language of binaries: women and men.

April 30 2018, 4:24am | Comments
Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - e-flux Architecture - e-flux
We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

April 10 2018, 12:38pm | Comments
Bookmark Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectical Images > non.copyriot.com non.copyriot.com
“It’s not that what is past casts its light on what is present, or what is present its light on what is past; rather, image is that wherein what has been…

April 5 2018, 4:08am | Comments
Bookmark An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried - Motherboard
Human extinction. The coordinated release of various strains of a human sterilization virus.

April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments
Bookmark Glitch Feminism: An Interview With Legacy Russell
Legacy Russell is a writer, artist and cultural producer. Her first book Glitch Feminism is forthcoming from Verso. A version of this interview first appeared in the chapter “Distracted to Attention: On Digital Reading”…

March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments
Syllabus Cache How to Pay Attention
Finally sharing the syllabus for this year's iteration of my anthro seminar, "How to Pay Attention": https://nick-seaver.squarespace.com/s/HTPA-syllabus-22.

February 1 2018, 9:09am | Comments
Bookmark Engineered for Dystopia | David A. Banks
Some of the first people to be called “engineers” operated siege engines. A siege engine is a very old device used to tear down the walls of an enemy city.

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Ursula K. Le Guin Explains How to Build a New Kind of…
By Ursula K. Le Guin These are some thoughts about utopia and dystopia. The old, crude Good Places were compensatory visions of controlling what you couldn’t control and having what you…

December 6 2017, 10:19pm | Comments
Bookmark The Fatberg Cometh | Sam Kriss
These are just the facts. On July 22, 2013, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, gave birth to her first child, Prince George. Two weeks later, an enormous “fatberg” was discovered in the…

October 1 2017, 4:03pm | Comments

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