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  I Am Sitting in a Room but cloning dogs over and over until they turn into hairy living blobs

  

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• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

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• Syllabus Cache Teaching the Intersection Between Classics, Anthropology, and Colonialism – Everyday…

  It is no scoop for anyone that many academic disciplines were born in Europe during the Age of Empires. It is certainly the case of Classics and other Antiquity-related specialities. It is, also, the case of Anthropology.

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• Syllabus Cache Undoing Patriarchy - A Syllabus

  Prepared February 2018.  This is in no way exhaustive but meant to be one of many resources, for men in particular, towards the larger movement of undoing patriarchy, ending sexual- and gender-based violence, and decreasing all violence.

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• Bookmark Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online - The Verge

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• Bookmark Asking the Right Questions About AI – Yonatan Zunger – Medium

  In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world. Self-driving cars will keep us alive; social media bubbles…

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• 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.

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• Bookmark Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism - Frontpage - e-flux conversations

  In the current issue of Salvage journal, Sølvi Goard uses Ghost in the Shell as an entry point for a discussion of how capitalism shapes bodies, especially trans bodies.

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• Bookmark Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be…

  The following is an excerpt from Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy, by Lynne Segal (Verso, November 2017). This essay is recommended by Longreads contributing editor Dana Snitzky.

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  As a kid, I saw the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes. As a future primatologist, I was mesmerized. Years later I discovered an anecdote about its filming: At lunchtime,…

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  Anatoly Karpov, the 66-year-old former World Chess Champion, was comfortable playing chess underneath the bright lights and in front of the cameras on a television studio set. His opponent, Mikhail “Misha”…

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  The model shows catastrophic outcomes: while the project is running, habitats are well-protected from climate change and animals cease chasing new latitudes they can survive in.

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• Bookmark We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now -…

  In December, Motherboard discovered a redditor named 'deepfakes' quietly enjoying his hobby: Face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers’ bodies.

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• 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.

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• Bookmark The Malignant Melancholy – The New Inquiry

  Let us begin by citing an authoritative man: According to Vivek H. Murthy, a former American surgeon general, the world is awash with an epidemic of loneliness.

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• Bookmark The Google Arts & Culture App and the Rise of the “Coded…

  A few days ago, I came across an old post on the Web site Bored Panda called “10+ Times People Accidentally Found Their Doppelgängers in Museums and Couldn’t Believe Their Eyes.”…

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  "So called normality" maps onto the conditions of depression precisely.

  

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• Bookmark The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Outer Space: Hexus Journal…

  To start our run up to Halloween, Thogdin Ripley and Philippa Snow of avant-horror publishers Hexus Journal pick thirteen films that blur the worlds of horror and the avant-garde to frightening,…

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  I Am Sitting in a Room but cloning dogs over and over until they turn into hairy living blobs

  

  March 4 2018, 6:19am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 1 2018, 8:44am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Teaching the Intersection Between Classics, Anthropology, and Colonialism – Everyday…

  It is no scoop for anyone that many academic disciplines were born in Europe during the Age of Empires. It is certainly the case of Classics and other Antiquity-related specialities. It is, also, the case of Anthropology.

  February 26 2018, 9:09am | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 20 2018, 4:33am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Undoing Patriarchy - A Syllabus

  Prepared February 2018.  This is in no way exhaustive but meant to be one of many resources, for men in particular, towards the larger movement of undoing patriarchy, ending sexual- and gender-based violence, and decreasing all violence.

  February 15 2018, 9:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online - The Verge

  In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over…

  February 8 2018, 7:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Asking the Right Questions About AI – Yonatan Zunger – Medium

  In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world. Self-driving cars will keep us alive; social media bubbles…

  February 8 2018, 7:07am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 7 2018, 12:19am | Comments

• Twitter

  The Bifurcation of Futures™

  

  February 4 2018, 8:38am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Princeton researchers discover #additivism

  

  February 1 2018, 7:06pm | 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 Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism - Frontpage - e-flux conversations

  In the current issue of Salvage journal, Sølvi Goard uses Ghost in the Shell as an entry point for a discussion of how capitalism shapes bodies, especially trans bodies.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be…

  The following is an excerpt from Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy, by Lynne Segal (Verso, November 2017). This essay is recommended by Longreads contributing editor Dana Snitzky.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Overcoming Us vs. Them

  As a kid, I saw the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes. As a future primatologist, I was mesmerized. Years later I discovered an anecdote about its filming: At lunchtime,…

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Search for the Next Chess Prodigy - The Ringer

  Anatoly Karpov, the 66-year-old former World Chess Champion, was comfortable playing chess underneath the bright lights and in front of the cameras on a television studio set. His opponent, Mikhail “Misha”…

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Men Who Are Convinced We’re All Living in a Simulation

  Dale Baker was introduced to simulation theory five years ago as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa. The idea that our reality may be nothing more than a computer-generated…

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark But What Would the End of Humanity Mean for Me? - The…

  Preeminent scientists are warning about serious threats to human life in the not-distant future, including climate change and superintelligent computers. Most people don't care.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Extinction of human race in a world of cannibalism is pegged at…

  Imagine a world where there is no food for us to feed on, and the only way to survive is to resort to cannibalism. A group of British researchers has envisaged…

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Japanese words for "space" could change your view of the world…

  When you are the first person to arrive in a meeting room, do you think of it as being empty or full? If you were raised in the West, a meeting…

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark If humans gave up on geoengineering after 50 years, it could be…

  The model shows catastrophic outcomes: while the project is running, habitats are well-protected from climate change and animals cease chasing new latitudes they can survive in.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now -…

  In December, Motherboard discovered a redditor named 'deepfakes' quietly enjoying his hobby: Face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers’ bodies.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | 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 The Malignant Melancholy – The New Inquiry

  Let us begin by citing an authoritative man: According to Vivek H. Murthy, a former American surgeon general, the world is awash with an epidemic of loneliness.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Google Arts & Culture App and the Rise of the “Coded…

  A few days ago, I came across an old post on the Web site Bored Panda called “10+ Times People Accidentally Found Their Doppelgängers in Museums and Couldn’t Believe Their Eyes.”…

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Bitcoin mania is hurting PC gamers by pushing up GPU prices -…

  Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin have soared in value over the past year, thanks to continued interest from a range of investors.

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: vr

  Most exciting critical writings on #VR you've come across?

  January 25 2018, 3:55am | Comments

• Twitter

  "So called normality" maps onto the conditions of depression precisely.

  

  January 19 2018, 11:49am | Comments

• Bookmark The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Outer Space: Hexus Journal…

  To start our run up to Halloween, Thogdin Ripley and Philippa Snow of avant-horror publishers Hexus Journal pick thirteen films that blur the worlds of horror and the avant-garde to frightening,…

  January 13 2018, 11:11am | Comments

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