“Weeds. Bed bugs. Gonorrhea. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. Emily Monosson, toxicologist and author of Unnatural Selection, shows how our drugs, […]
Cristina Grasseni more of her research @ http://www.uu.nl/staff/CGrasseni/0
and with Will Self @ http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2015/apr/03/will-self-john-gray-freedom-determinism-soul-marionette-puppet-podcast
via http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2015/04/happy-happy-easter.html thanks gz!
http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/moneylab-reader-an-intervention-in-digital-economy/ Contributors: Irwan Abdalloh, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, Robert van Boeschoten, Finn Brunton, Paolo Cirio, Jim Costanzo, Primavera De Filippi, Eduard de Jong, Irina Enache, Andrea Fumagalli, David Golumbia, Max Haiven, […]
Originally posted on Installing (Social) Order:
A friend recently turned me onto the idea that somebody, somewhere is embedding USB ports into infrastructure in various places around the world —…
via http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2015/04/02/post-cinema-cultures-of-energy/ maybe it’s a kind of aspect-blindness on my part but by and large I don’t find films (fiction not docs) and videos to be particularly vivid/moving/convincing examples of the […]
“Discussing the extraordinary complexity of our everyday actions, and inviting comparison with the power of visual artists to interrupt our habitual behaviour, the speakers explored how ‘Manual’ draws attention to […]
plus her paper Public Interventions: http://www.skor.nl/_files/Files/OPEN!%20Key%20Texts_Sassen.pdf
http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/files/atg/atg_2014.09.02_kotsko_on_agamben_0.mp3 “How foundational are violence and coercion to Western sovereign authority? According to Giorgio Agamben, states of emergency have become not the exception but the rule, and the individual has […]
“Living Side by Side: On Culture and Security: Does the concept of security assume a distinctive cultural form in the midst of deafening patriotic calls for protection and precaution? This […]
Originally posted on Unlimited Dream Company ('Despairing at last, I decided to die' -J.G. Ballard):
We are supposed to be inside a speeding train, the train being capitalism accelerating as ever.…
Originally posted on Sophie Lewis, writer based in Philadelphia:
I’ve recently joined the Out of the Woods writing collective so I’m flagging our review of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything. We…
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