Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present will be coming out from Zero Books on February…

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I just had the old Dodge in the shop with that same damned front-end problem, and I was out, so to speak, for a test run, loafing along, maybe 35 […]

“Erik Rietveld will introduce The Skilled Intentionality Framework for dealing with so-called ‘higher’ cognition. It is an Ecological-Enactive approach to cognition that aim to bring together the embodied/enactive program (e.g. […]

https://soundcloud.com/johnisfaster/andrei-codrescu-homage-to-the-leak

http://media.blubrry.com/zerosquared/p/media.blubrry.com/dietsoap/p/content.blubrry.com/dietsoap/dietpod198.mp3 “This summer, I seriously considered withdrawing from any involvement in politics. Exhausted through overwork, incapable of productive activity, I found myself drifting through social networks, feeling my depression and […]

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“Why is your shape what it is? Are shadows 2D? Is matter potentiality, and form actuality? What do shapes mean at different scales? Do shapes evolve? Are only regular 3D […]

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
“A Guide to Virtual Death” by J.G. Ballard For reasons amply documented elsewhere, intelligent life on earth became extinct in the closing hours of the 20th…

Originally posted on Installing (Social) Order:
A must-read: “THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF DECLUTTERING IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD” By Tom Gauld, from the NYT Culture Desk. We’ve talked about post-apocalyptic issues a…