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• 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,…

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  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.

  

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• Syllabus Cache Collapse of Civilization reading list

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

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• 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…

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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…

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• 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…

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• 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…

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• 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.

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• 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!

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  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…

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• 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…

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• 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…

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  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,…

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  There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of…

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• Bookmark Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? - Los Angeles Review of Books

  IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an unacknowledged…

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• Reddit What is your personal SF/F Canon? Which authors or books really defined what science fiction and fantasy is for you? What is your personal SF/F canon? And not necessarily which books do you think define science fiction and/or fantasy best, but which ones defined them for you as you grew up or developed your taste in the genre? submitted by /u/ctopherrun…

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• 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…

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  This is part one of a two-part conversation with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.  Fred Moten is the author of In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, multiple volumes of poetry, and most recently the…

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  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…

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  It sounds like a sci-fi movie, or the weirdest series of Big Brother ever. Eight volunteers wearing snazzy red jumpsuits seal themselves into a hi-tech glasshouse that’s meant to perfectly replicate…

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  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

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  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

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• Syllabus Cache Collapse of Civilization reading list

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

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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

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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…

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• 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!

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• 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

• Bookmark Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as…

  There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of…

  August 18 2020, 6:13am | Comments

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  August 17 2020, 11:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? - Los Angeles Review of Books

  IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an unacknowledged…

  August 11 2020, 10:13pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your personal SF/F Canon? Which authors or books really defined what science fiction and fantasy is for you? What is your personal SF/F canon? And not necessarily which books do you think define science fiction and/or fantasy best, but which ones defined them for you as you grew up or developed your taste in the genre? submitted by /u/ctopherrun…

  August 11 2020, 2:27pm | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  The sun will not die in my bed. Nor will the stars.

  

  August 1 2020, 8:30pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: "Wildcat The Totality" - Fred Moten And Stefano…

  This is part one of a two-part conversation with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.  Fred Moten is the author of In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, multiple volumes of poetry, and most recently the…

  July 29 2020, 1:03am | Comments

• Instagram Not ok, internet. Not ok.

  July 26 2020, 12:41pm | 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 Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong…

  It sounds like a sci-fi movie, or the weirdest series of Big Brother ever. Eight volunteers wearing snazzy red jumpsuits seal themselves into a hi-tech glasshouse that’s meant to perfectly replicate…

  July 26 2020, 2:13am | Comments

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