“In brief, our hypothesis is that the new technologies that are being created bring about larger negative externalities than in previous epochs by forcing the early and premature obsolescence of […]

The Uncanny Valley Is in Fact a Gigantic Plain, Stretching as Far as the Eye Can See in Every Direction mp3@ http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-uncanny-valley-is-in-fact-gigantic.html

I’m not so big on homeostasis talk but the general darwinian thrust makes sense, Pat may miss the aspects of human-being where we do some things as we do for […]

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Post 4 in a series of ethnographic notes sent from the Pacific Ocean. View more from the series here. Keeping watch at sunset from…

“This talk examines the changing material terrain of urban struggle today. The rapid militarization of the police, the changing spatial patterns of segregation, the embeddedness of ubiquitous computing into into […]

“This return to immanence, that is, to a flattening out of social, cultural, and political connections, has important consequences for me. As Negri, Haraway, and Deleuze and Guattari have consistently […]

http://www.ecoshock.info/2015/01/abrupt-climate-change-yes.html

“The ultimate battle lines are clear. It’s a question of whether all these sensors, filters, profiles and algorithms can be used by citizens and communities for some kind of emancipation […]

http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/archive/audio/2015_01_22_LGS/2015_01_22_Catherine_Malabou_talk.mp3 Q&A @ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2015/01/catherine-malabou-and-eric-laurent-psychoanalysis-and-the-cognitive-sciences/

starts around 12mins in

“Hence in discussion with Ray Brassier in Berlin I’m certainly not suggesting we envisage a future without antibiotics, although I did point out the various iatrogenic effects of capitalism, but […]

Fleshing out his own version of environmental (critters manipulating with/in their environs) psychology Andy asks Are You Your Brain, and Is Your Brain a Computer?