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• 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 Not So Super, Mario.. I was 10 when Super Mario Galaxy came……

  I was 10 when Super Mario Galaxy came out, and I’m 22 now on its rerelease. There was all sorts of confusion before it came out, about what really was the…

  October 9 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

• Bookmark Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual…

  Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler*, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of gender as performance.

  October 9 2020, 12:13am | Comments

• Bookmark How Humanity Came To Contemplate Its Possible Extinction: A Timeline | The…

  It is only in the last couple of centuries that we have begun to grasp that our existence might one day cease to exist forever. Today's attempts to measure and mitigate…

  October 9 2020, 12:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Springtime Everywhere — Real Life

  “If you look at Google Earth, it’s springtime everywhere,” explains Gopal Shah, Google Earth’s product manager, in a YouTube interview. In a TED talk he boasts that Google Earth is “cloud-free,”…

  October 8 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Are Octopuses So Smart? - The Atlantic

  A small shark spots its prey—a meaty, seemingly defenseless octopus. The shark ambushes, and then, in one of the most astonishing sequences in the series Blue Planet II, the octopus escapes.…

  October 8 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Algorithms of war: surprise!

  

  October 7 2020, 3:01pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Movies are so well done. They genuinely don't feel like a rapid series of still images

  

  October 7 2020, 2:32pm | Comments

• 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

• Twitter

  i am so tired of thinking about donald trump

  

  October 4 2020, 3:25pm | 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

• Twitter

  By accepting that there is more to life than we can handle, we simultaneously accept that there is more to this world than can handle us.

  

  October 1 2020, 8:33am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 23 2020, 4:00am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Collapse of Civilization reading list

  This is a list of books on and related to collapse broken down by various categories.

  September 21 2020, 5:59am | Comments

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• 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

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Weird Western recommendations Please recommend me some stories in the Weird West genre. Mild specifications below the cut

  September 8 2020, 3:49pm | Comments

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• Bookmark When The World Isn’t Designed for Our Bodies | The New Yorker

  “What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World,” a new book by the artist and design researcher Sara Hendren, opens with a challenge. A curator named Amanda has…

  September 5 2020, 8:13am | Comments

• Bookmark The Making of an Incel | The Walrus

  Mass violence motivated by misogyny is repeatedly attributed to mental illness, framed as the act of a lone man driven to snap by his disordered neurology. That’s what happened in Montreal…

  September 4 2020, 8:13am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Queer Eye’, Jordan Peterson and the battle for depressed men | openDemocracy

  While I was undercover at a far Right conference in Italy last year, it was easy to hide how I really felt about the people I was ‘befriending’. I’d been feigning…

  September 3 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save…

  In the beginning there was Covid-19, and the tribe of the white collars rent their garments, for their workdays were a formless void, and all their rituals were gone.

  September 3 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Good middle age group graphic novels for a woke 9 year old girl As above! I saw her reading Nnedi Okorafor's Ikenga. Shippable to US on not amazon would be great. Very social justice orientated family. Thank you!

  August 31 2020, 6:34am | Comments

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• Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts

  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

  August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Zuboff is a PSYOP

  Cold open: Agent Zuboff receives her mission. Main show: We politically cancel Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, for advancing / mainstreaming a reactionary critique. Surveillance capitalism is not a “rogue mutation” of a normal…

  August 25 2020, 4:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Do Cyborgs Have Politics? — Pax Solaria

  Image by Jamy van Zyl In 1986, Science and Technology Studies scholar Langdon Winner launched a debate about the power of technologies to shape human politics when he asked “do artefacts…

  August 20 2020, 6:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Collective Turn-off – Sophie Lewis – Mal

  I think human beings are turned off right now. Of course it is tempting to rationalise our turned-off-ness with reference to Covid-19. But it is not – it can never be…

  August 19 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark Horse eyeballs and bone hammers: surprising lives of the Neanderthals

  A quarter of the way through Kindred, I was longing to meet a Neanderthal. By the end, I realized that we had met. She is in me — or at least,…

  August 19 2020, 7:13am | Comments

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• 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 Not So Super, Mario.. I was 10 when Super Mario Galaxy came……

  I was 10 when Super Mario Galaxy came out, and I’m 22 now on its rerelease. There was all sorts of confusion before it came out, about what really was the…

  October 9 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

• Bookmark Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual…

  Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler*, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of gender as performance.

  October 9 2020, 12:13am | Comments

• Bookmark How Humanity Came To Contemplate Its Possible Extinction: A Timeline | The…

  It is only in the last couple of centuries that we have begun to grasp that our existence might one day cease to exist forever. Today's attempts to measure and mitigate…

  October 9 2020, 12:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Springtime Everywhere — Real Life

  “If you look at Google Earth, it’s springtime everywhere,” explains Gopal Shah, Google Earth’s product manager, in a YouTube interview. In a TED talk he boasts that Google Earth is “cloud-free,”…

  October 8 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Are Octopuses So Smart? - The Atlantic

  A small shark spots its prey—a meaty, seemingly defenseless octopus. The shark ambushes, and then, in one of the most astonishing sequences in the series Blue Planet II, the octopus escapes.…

  October 8 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Algorithms of war: surprise!

  

  October 7 2020, 3:01pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Movies are so well done. They genuinely don't feel like a rapid series of still images

  

  October 7 2020, 2:32pm | Comments

• 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

• Twitter

  i am so tired of thinking about donald trump

  

  October 4 2020, 3:25pm | 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

• Twitter

  By accepting that there is more to life than we can handle, we simultaneously accept that there is more to this world than can handle us.

  

  October 1 2020, 8:33am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 23 2020, 4:00am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Collapse of Civilization reading list

  This is a list of books on and related to collapse broken down by various categories.

  September 21 2020, 5:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 17 2020, 10:08am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 11 2020, 1:04pm | 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

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Weird Western recommendations Please recommend me some stories in the Weird West genre. Mild specifications below the cut

  September 8 2020, 3:49pm | Comments

• YouTube

  September 7 2020, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark When The World Isn’t Designed for Our Bodies | The New Yorker

  “What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World,” a new book by the artist and design researcher Sara Hendren, opens with a challenge. A curator named Amanda has…

  September 5 2020, 8:13am | Comments

• Bookmark The Making of an Incel | The Walrus

  Mass violence motivated by misogyny is repeatedly attributed to mental illness, framed as the act of a lone man driven to snap by his disordered neurology. That’s what happened in Montreal…

  September 4 2020, 8:13am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Queer Eye’, Jordan Peterson and the battle for depressed men | openDemocracy

  While I was undercover at a far Right conference in Italy last year, it was easy to hide how I really felt about the people I was ‘befriending’. I’d been feigning…

  September 3 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save…

  In the beginning there was Covid-19, and the tribe of the white collars rent their garments, for their workdays were a formless void, and all their rituals were gone.

  September 3 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Good middle age group graphic novels for a woke 9 year old girl As above! I saw her reading Nnedi Okorafor's Ikenga. Shippable to US on not amazon would be great. Very social justice orientated family. Thank you!

  August 31 2020, 6:34am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache UIM Schedule - Google Docs

  August 26 2020, 2:59am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts

  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

  August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Zuboff is a PSYOP

  Cold open: Agent Zuboff receives her mission. Main show: We politically cancel Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, for advancing / mainstreaming a reactionary critique. Surveillance capitalism is not a “rogue mutation” of a normal…

  August 25 2020, 4:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Do Cyborgs Have Politics? — Pax Solaria

  Image by Jamy van Zyl In 1986, Science and Technology Studies scholar Langdon Winner launched a debate about the power of technologies to shape human politics when he asked “do artefacts…

  August 20 2020, 6:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Collective Turn-off – Sophie Lewis – Mal

  I think human beings are turned off right now. Of course it is tempting to rationalise our turned-off-ness with reference to Covid-19. But it is not – it can never be…

  August 19 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark Horse eyeballs and bone hammers: surprising lives of the Neanderthals

  A quarter of the way through Kindred, I was longing to meet a Neanderthal. By the end, I realized that we had met. She is in me — or at least,…

  August 19 2020, 7:13am | Comments

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