Click to access excommunication.pdf Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark

Thinking of Caroline Herschel (1750—1848) astronomer, sister of William; and others. A woman in the shape of a monster a monster in the shape of a woman the skies are […]

http://www.studio360.org/story/the-peculiar-sadness-of-a-toothbrush/

https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky  http://www.yudkowsky.net/

http://livestream.com/hammermuseum/wattsrebellion/videos/95822593 “On the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Watts rebellion, we discuss the past and present of race relations in the United States with historians Gerald Horne, University of Houston, author […]

http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02zdqn5.mp3 “The gun attack on the beach resort of Sousse that killed 38 tourists, deterred many holiday-makers from travelling to Tunisia. But not journalist, Frances Stonor Saunders. She packed her […]

see also: http://www.philpercs.com/2015/08/modernism-as-an-inclosure-paradox-thoughts-on-wasteland-and-prufrock-paradoxicalities.html

The Peripheral is not his best work, the time travel-ish aspect is weak and in some ways a step backwards for his writing,  but worth a read. http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/books/the_peripheral_excerpt.aspy

https://soundcloud.com/herebemonsters/hbm038-do-crows-mourn-their-dead When we are faced with the uncanny, brute, aspects of life experiences ( like mourning can be)  we all too often default to anthropomorphizing, but what might it be […]

what if we read folks like D&G in terms of experimenting with thinking of matters of concern/interest as-if  (like Jane Bennett’s “strategic” animism/vitalism) and not as literal/scientific projects? What happens […]

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The highest species concept may be that of a terrestrial rational being; however, we shall not be able to name its character because we…