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• Bookmark MONSTROUS THOUGHTS: Philosopher Eugene Thacker on the “New Golden Age of Horror”…

  When René Descartes, sitting in his armchair in Leiden in 1641, invites his readers to meditate alongside him, you get the sense he could do with the company.

  August 21 2019, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Press can compare parrots to psychopaths, regulator rules | Media | The…

  British newspapers can legitimately mock parrots and compare them to psychopaths, the press regulator has ruled, after an unsuccessful complaint that the Daily Star misrepresented the emotions of a pet bird.

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | 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.

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• Bookmark In Praise of Samuel R. Delany - The New York Times

  The author of “Dhalgren” and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world,” the novelist Jordy Rosenberg writes. So reflects the nameless…

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• Bookmark The Downward Spiral: The Chimera Manifesto | Spike Art Magazine

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• Bookmark What is Called Thinking in the Anthropocene? — The Revealer

  This is a piece about failures. My failures, mostly, as a thinker and a scholar, but also the failure of my field and the failure of all of us to think…

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• Bookmark An Archaeologist Writes against the Anthropocene | Open Rivers Journal

  Much of what archaeologists do is study how humans adapt to the environment. After Gordon Willey’s (1953) groundbreaking investigation into the entire history of occupation of a small valley in Peru,…

  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 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.

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  They let us fuck anything in the warehouse

  

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• Bookmark The Great Silence - Issue 75: Story - Nautilus

  The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe. But I…

  August 17 2019, 6:04am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Daniel Dennett interview

  Daniel Dennett talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the evolution of the human brain. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kv3y4

  August 15 2019, 4:35am | Comments

• Bookmark A New Clue to the Origins of Life - The Atlantic

  When Caitlin Cornell looked down her microscope, she saw large bright spots against a black background. They resembled miniature suns, blazing against the backdrop of space.

  August 14 2019, 5:17pm | Comments

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• Bookmark The Abolition Of Man (No, Really) | The American Conservative

  My libertarian friend Conor Friedersdorf has stared into the abyss, and has been jolted by what stared back. He writes about it in a must-read essay with the deceptively anodyne title…

  August 10 2019, 1:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Elon Musk argues that we must put a million people on Mars…

  ‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’ We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX headquarters in…

  August 10 2019, 1:20pm | Comments

• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

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• 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

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• Bookmark Children of Production — Real Life

  “I’ll wager that there is a baby making to be aimed for that will be defined neither by the alienated misery of the status quo nor the silver absolutism of their…

  July 28 2019, 8:12pm | 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

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  I predict this is the year where "fucked" officially becomes a scientific term.

  

  July 27 2019, 4:55pm | 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

• Bookmark Extinction Rebellion: Not the Struggle we Need, Pt. 1

  The first of a three-part critique of Extinction Rebellion, focussing on their attitudes towards the police, legal system and prison. Out of the Woods are utterly convinced of the need for…

  July 20 2019, 11:10am | Comments

• Twitter

  Kids be like “Watch this” then do a jump and spin wasting my fucking time

  

  July 20 2019, 7:04am | Comments

• Reddit Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter on the planet: 4.5 trillion are littered each year. New research… submitted by /u/ratterstinkle to r/science [link] [comments]

  July 19 2019, 7:30pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Firing Blanks: Hito Steyerl and the Voiding of Research Art - Momus

  We’ve all heard the statistics. That in America, there is a mass shooting every day, that one hundred Americans die from gun violence daily, that access to a gun doubles and…

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• Syllabus Cache Summer intensive science fiction course

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• Instagram Don't ask me how I came across this. Just know that it's available for $7.99…

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• Metafilter MeFi: 434 Fridays Later ... Rebecca Black was, at age 13, the singer of Friday, the most popular (and most-mocked) video on YouTube in 2011 (Katy Perry, concerned about the internet bullying, invited Black to star in her video Last Friday Night). Today she is 22 and talks…

  July 7 2019, 8:54pm | Comments

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• Bookmark MONSTROUS THOUGHTS: Philosopher Eugene Thacker on the “New Golden Age of Horror”…

  When René Descartes, sitting in his armchair in Leiden in 1641, invites his readers to meditate alongside him, you get the sense he could do with the company.

  August 21 2019, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Press can compare parrots to psychopaths, regulator rules | Media | The…

  British newspapers can legitimately mock parrots and compare them to psychopaths, the press regulator has ruled, after an unsuccessful complaint that the Daily Star misrepresented the emotions of a pet bird.

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | 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

• Bookmark In Praise of Samuel R. Delany - The New York Times

  The author of “Dhalgren” and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world,” the novelist Jordy Rosenberg writes. So reflects the nameless…

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Downward Spiral: The Chimera Manifesto | Spike Art Magazine

  This website uses cookies to help us give you the best experience when you visit our website. By continuing to use this website, you consent to our use of these cookies.…

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments

• Bookmark What is Called Thinking in the Anthropocene? — The Revealer

  This is a piece about failures. My failures, mostly, as a thinker and a scholar, but also the failure of my field and the failure of all of us to think…

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments

• Bookmark An Archaeologist Writes against the Anthropocene | Open Rivers Journal

  Much of what archaeologists do is study how humans adapt to the environment. After Gordon Willey’s (1953) groundbreaking investigation into the entire history of occupation of a small valley in Peru,…

  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 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

• Twitter

  They let us fuck anything in the warehouse

  

  August 17 2019, 6:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Silence - Issue 75: Story - Nautilus

  The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe. But I…

  August 17 2019, 6:04am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Daniel Dennett interview

  Daniel Dennett talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the evolution of the human brain. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kv3y4

  August 15 2019, 4:35am | Comments

• Bookmark A New Clue to the Origins of Life - The Atlantic

  When Caitlin Cornell looked down her microscope, she saw large bright spots against a black background. They resembled miniature suns, blazing against the backdrop of space.

  August 14 2019, 5:17pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 11 2019, 5:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The Abolition Of Man (No, Really) | The American Conservative

  My libertarian friend Conor Friedersdorf has stared into the abyss, and has been jolted by what stared back. He writes about it in a must-read essay with the deceptively anodyne title…

  August 10 2019, 1:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Elon Musk argues that we must put a million people on Mars…

  ‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’ We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX headquarters in…

  August 10 2019, 1:20pm | Comments

• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

  August 8 2019, 5:56am | 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 NEW MEDIA TOOLS - Google Docs

  August 2 2019, 4:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Children of Production — Real Life

  “I’ll wager that there is a baby making to be aimed for that will be defined neither by the alienated misery of the status quo nor the silver absolutism of their…

  July 28 2019, 8:12pm | 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

• Twitter

  I predict this is the year where "fucked" officially becomes a scientific term.

  

  July 27 2019, 4:55pm | 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

• Bookmark Extinction Rebellion: Not the Struggle we Need, Pt. 1

  The first of a three-part critique of Extinction Rebellion, focussing on their attitudes towards the police, legal system and prison. Out of the Woods are utterly convinced of the need for…

  July 20 2019, 11:10am | Comments

• Twitter

  Kids be like “Watch this” then do a jump and spin wasting my fucking time

  

  July 20 2019, 7:04am | Comments

• Reddit Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter on the planet: 4.5 trillion are littered each year. New research… submitted by /u/ratterstinkle to r/science [link] [comments]

  July 19 2019, 7:30pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Firing Blanks: Hito Steyerl and the Voiding of Research Art - Momus

  We’ve all heard the statistics. That in America, there is a mass shooting every day, that one hundred Americans die from gun violence daily, that access to a gun doubles and…

  July 17 2019, 10:11am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 8 2019, 7:00pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Summer intensive science fiction course

  July 8 2019, 11:35am | Comments

• Instagram Don't ask me how I came across this. Just know that it's available for $7.99…

  July 8 2019, 9:27am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: 434 Fridays Later ... Rebecca Black was, at age 13, the singer of Friday, the most popular (and most-mocked) video on YouTube in 2011 (Katy Perry, concerned about the internet bullying, invited Black to star in her video Last Friday Night). Today she is 22 and talks…

  July 7 2019, 8:54pm | Comments

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