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• Bookmark Singularity and the anthropocentric bias | Svedic.org

  There is a small problem with that. When these thinkers say something can possibly happen, ordinary people start to believe that it will inevitably happen. Like in politics, constantly suggesting that…

  September 6 2015, 5:18am | Comments

• Bookmark THE DIGITAL GOTHIC — CGWTF

  My thoughts about destruction, visual effects, software and spectacle have recently been intersecting with ideas of the Gothic.

  September 6 2015, 5:18am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

  September 3 2015, 6:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Climate Change Means One World's Death and Another's Birth | WIRED

  A few years ago in a lab in Panama, Klaus Winter tried to conjure the future. A plant physiologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, he planted seedlings of 10 tropical…

  September 1 2015, 7:09am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist in Residence @ VIA 2015 Festival: What is #Additivism?

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• Tumblr Sarah Connor + iguana fan art

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  The Sarah Connor Cyborg Consortium

  

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  Transactional Horror Economy

  

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• Bookmark The Fantasy Author H.P. Lovecraft at 125: Genius, Cult Icon, Racist -…

  American history is filled with writers whose genius was underappreciated—or altogether ignored—in their lifetime. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems weren’t discovered and published until after her death. F. Scott Fitzgerald “died…

  August 29 2015, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture’s Generations | The Multispecies Salon

  by Donna Haraway Frontier practices of the 21st century are always announcing new worlds, proposing the novel as the solution to the old, figuring creation as radical invention and replacement, rushing…

  August 29 2015, 3:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Samuel R. Delany Speaks | The Nation

  When he was 11, Samuel R. Delany stayed overnight at a Harlem hospital for observation. It was 1953, and nearly a decade before Delany would publish his first science-fiction novel. He…

  August 29 2015, 3:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Wearable, Projection-Mapped Mask Is a Cyberpunk Masterpiece | The Creators Project

  Bill Shannon Wearable Video Mask from william shannon on Vimeo.

  August 29 2015, 3:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Facebook's Human-Powered Assistant May Just Supercharge AI | WIRED

  Face it: Siri sucks. So often, she has no clue what you’re saying. And when she does, there’s a pretty good chance she’ll respond with nothing more than a page filled…

  August 29 2015, 3:33pm | Comments

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• Tumblr The End

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• Instagram and the crowd goes wild

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• Projects POSTmatter ::: fig-2 ::: ICA - Live Collaborative Writing

  August 28 2015, 4:46am | Comments

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  Nature is a commonplace

  

  August 26 2015, 6:34am | Comments

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  Nature abhores a monoculture

  

  August 25 2015, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Technologists control the world we live in — and artists are worried…

  In May, the New York-based art nonprofit Rhizome paired seven technologists with seven artists to create something over a 24-hour period. The artists get paid. The technologists do not.

  August 23 2015, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark How the Creative Response of Artists and Activists Can Transform the World…

    In an exchange of essays on American democracy published in the January 11, 1941, issue of The Nation, a few leading intellectuals of the time explored the question “Who owns…

  August 23 2015, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark The Posthuman Future: Technopessimism and the Inhuman | alien ecologies

  …suicide is the decisive political act of our times.― Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Precarious Rhapsody It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

  August 23 2015, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark This Man Has Been Trying to Live Life as a Goat |…

  Thomas Thwaites is currently investigating what it might be like to live as a goat. He commissioned prosthetics for his arms and legs so that he could walk, as comfortably as…

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Fillip / Speed Trials: A Conversation about Accelerationist Politics (Mohammad Salemy, Nick…

  Speed Trials: A Conversation about Accelerationist PoliticsMohammad Salemy, Nick Srnicek, and Alex Williams Mohammad Salemy – As a curator, I have been investigating the synthesis of mass computation and mass telecommunication, or what I…

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark "Means Well" Technology and the Internet of Good Intentions — Thingclash

  So, let’s talk about the color-changing condom.

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark The octopus genome and the evolution of cephalopod neural and morphological novelties…

  Soft-bodied cephalopods such as the octopus (Fig.

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark The Geology Of Star Trek: From Extraterrestrial Minerals To Alien Life-Forms

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• Bookmark McDouble is 'cheapest and most nutritious food in human history' - Telegraph

  Describing the McDonald’s double cheeseburger as “the cheapest, most nutritious, and bountiful food that has ever existed in human history” might seem beyond fanciful, but according to the author of Freakonomics,…

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark 'We Are the Future Cunt': CyberFeminism in the 90s | Motherboard

  ​CyberFeminism \ˈsī-bərˈfe-mə-ni-zəm \ : A wave of thought, criticism, and art that emerged in the early 1990s, galvanizing a generation of feminists, before bursting along with the dot-com bubble.

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

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  Take my advice.

  

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• Bookmark The Moral Imperative of Human Spaceflight | Grand Strategy: The View from…

  The text below is a paper I wrote to correspond to my presentation at the first 100YSS Symposium in 2011. 0. Preamble1. The case against civilization2. The evils of civilization3. The…

  August 21 2015, 12:36pm | Comments

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  The concrete space of the physical mark

  

  August 18 2015, 3:15pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Singularity and the anthropocentric bias | Svedic.org

  There is a small problem with that. When these thinkers say something can possibly happen, ordinary people start to believe that it will inevitably happen. Like in politics, constantly suggesting that…

  September 6 2015, 5:18am | Comments

• Bookmark THE DIGITAL GOTHIC — CGWTF

  My thoughts about destruction, visual effects, software and spectacle have recently been intersecting with ideas of the Gothic.

  September 6 2015, 5:18am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

  September 3 2015, 6:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Climate Change Means One World's Death and Another's Birth | WIRED

  A few years ago in a lab in Panama, Klaus Winter tried to conjure the future. A plant physiologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, he planted seedlings of 10 tropical…

  September 1 2015, 7:09am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist in Residence @ VIA 2015 Festival: What is #Additivism?

  September 1 2015, 4:57am | Comments

• Tumblr Sarah Connor + iguana fan art

  August 31 2015, 4:17am | Comments

• Twitter

  The Sarah Connor Cyborg Consortium

  

  August 31 2015, 3:51am | Comments

• Twitter

  Transactional Horror Economy

  

  August 30 2015, 10:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fantasy Author H.P. Lovecraft at 125: Genius, Cult Icon, Racist -…

  American history is filled with writers whose genius was underappreciated—or altogether ignored—in their lifetime. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems weren’t discovered and published until after her death. F. Scott Fitzgerald “died…

  August 29 2015, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture’s Generations | The Multispecies Salon

  by Donna Haraway Frontier practices of the 21st century are always announcing new worlds, proposing the novel as the solution to the old, figuring creation as radical invention and replacement, rushing…

  August 29 2015, 3:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Samuel R. Delany Speaks | The Nation

  When he was 11, Samuel R. Delany stayed overnight at a Harlem hospital for observation. It was 1953, and nearly a decade before Delany would publish his first science-fiction novel. He…

  August 29 2015, 3:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Wearable, Projection-Mapped Mask Is a Cyberpunk Masterpiece | The Creators Project

  Bill Shannon Wearable Video Mask from william shannon on Vimeo.

  August 29 2015, 3:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Facebook's Human-Powered Assistant May Just Supercharge AI | WIRED

  Face it: Siri sucks. So often, she has no clue what you’re saying. And when she does, there’s a pretty good chance she’ll respond with nothing more than a page filled…

  August 29 2015, 3:33pm | Comments

• Twitter

  self-mutation

  

  August 28 2015, 2:34pm | Comments

• Tumblr The End

  August 28 2015, 8:30am | Comments

• Instagram and the crowd goes wild

  August 28 2015, 8:25am | Comments

• Projects POSTmatter ::: fig-2 ::: ICA - Live Collaborative Writing

  August 28 2015, 4:46am | Comments

• Twitter

  Nature is a commonplace

  

  August 26 2015, 6:34am | Comments

• Twitter

  Nature abhores a monoculture

  

  August 25 2015, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Technologists control the world we live in — and artists are worried…

  In May, the New York-based art nonprofit Rhizome paired seven technologists with seven artists to create something over a 24-hour period. The artists get paid. The technologists do not.

  August 23 2015, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark How the Creative Response of Artists and Activists Can Transform the World…

    In an exchange of essays on American democracy published in the January 11, 1941, issue of The Nation, a few leading intellectuals of the time explored the question “Who owns…

  August 23 2015, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark The Posthuman Future: Technopessimism and the Inhuman | alien ecologies

  …suicide is the decisive political act of our times.― Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Precarious Rhapsody It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

  August 23 2015, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark This Man Has Been Trying to Live Life as a Goat |…

  Thomas Thwaites is currently investigating what it might be like to live as a goat. He commissioned prosthetics for his arms and legs so that he could walk, as comfortably as…

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Fillip / Speed Trials: A Conversation about Accelerationist Politics (Mohammad Salemy, Nick…

  Speed Trials: A Conversation about Accelerationist PoliticsMohammad Salemy, Nick Srnicek, and Alex Williams Mohammad Salemy – As a curator, I have been investigating the synthesis of mass computation and mass telecommunication, or what I…

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark "Means Well" Technology and the Internet of Good Intentions — Thingclash

  So, let’s talk about the color-changing condom.

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark The octopus genome and the evolution of cephalopod neural and morphological novelties…

  Soft-bodied cephalopods such as the octopus (Fig.

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark The Geology Of Star Trek: From Extraterrestrial Minerals To Alien Life-Forms

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark McDouble is 'cheapest and most nutritious food in human history' - Telegraph

  Describing the McDonald’s double cheeseburger as “the cheapest, most nutritious, and bountiful food that has ever existed in human history” might seem beyond fanciful, but according to the author of Freakonomics,…

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark 'We Are the Future Cunt': CyberFeminism in the 90s | Motherboard

  ​CyberFeminism \ˈsī-bərˈfe-mə-ni-zəm \ : A wave of thought, criticism, and art that emerged in the early 1990s, galvanizing a generation of feminists, before bursting along with the dot-com bubble.

  August 23 2015, 7:55am | Comments

• Twitter

  Take my advice.

  

  August 22 2015, 8:37pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Moral Imperative of Human Spaceflight | Grand Strategy: The View from…

  The text below is a paper I wrote to correspond to my presentation at the first 100YSS Symposium in 2011. 0. Preamble1. The case against civilization2. The evils of civilization3. The…

  August 21 2015, 12:36pm | Comments

• Twitter

  The concrete space of the physical mark

  

  August 18 2015, 3:15pm | Comments

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