Disturbed by a technical glitch while watching a box set, Will Self began to consider the narrowing gap between images and real life. Is technology altering our grasp on reality? […]

“Yet at least he had believed in the cars. Maybe to excess: how could he not, seeing people poorer than him come in, Negro, Mexican, cracker, a parade seven days […]

https://soundcloud.com/adam-d-morton/donna-baines-moral-projects-and-compromise-resistance

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2016/08/bbg_20160814_0805.mp3             “Putin’s war on drugs is fueling an AIDS crisis, while in Uganda HIV+ people are being criminalised. ” http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/the-unexpected-faces-of-the-fight-against-hiv-aids/7719710

afraid these folks are pissing into the wind but i salute their spirit of resistance http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4892/1739

Originally posted on xenaudial:
As X walked away, the words of Empedocles stuck in their craw: “those who change their bodily condition deem to change their thought.” X recollected being…

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sFsCYrQZo9vvLXjqwFi1H8kgJumAI-0Q4RPb1KSqnUY/edit?usp=sharing additivism.org/horror Any sufficiently advanced civilisation is indistinguishable from its garbage. – Bruce Sterling

more @ https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/aug/12/future-cities-deus-ex-universe-2029-in-pictures

“When “social media” meant “blogs,” there were many tools, services and protocols that comprised an infrastructure for federated, open, loosely joined interaction: the rise of the social giants has killed […]

Originally posted on Natalie D Kane:
Below is a few thoughts that I opened the second session of Haunted Machines at FutureEverything with yesterday. I’ll probably type up a few…

https://soundcloud.com/startalk/gazing-into-the-future-with-ray-kurzweil https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-dystopia-tung-hui-hus-a-prehistory-of-the-cloud/

http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/2/4/a/24aeec5494819097/Kevin_Kelly_CompleteCOMP.mp3?c_id=12400392&expiration=1471141710&hwt=949d9703e35324743731788048a9a19e I especially enjoyed when the net phantasy was connected to process theology, good to have that made explicit, could we than think of the democracy of objects in terms […]

today is the day that the Lord has made? http://homebrave.com/home-of-the-brave//cleveland-rnc-part-2

“Whitehead’s remark that sense impressions are as good a basis for philosophy as traffic signs on the main road are a basis to elucidate the sociology of modern world (in […]

Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
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http://dcs.megaphone.fm/FL9213631833.mp3?key=4272b8c9e3cfbae3d9aab21a2cf2cf2d “She was tight with Biggie and has the ear of some of today’s biggest musicians, but writer, filmmaker, and social justice activist dream hampton prefers to stay out of […]

related interview @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p043ryzb does anyone actually find these statues to be threatening?

http://voicerepublic.com/vrmedia/5721.mp3 “Susanne Kirchmayr will present »female:pressure«, a network and online database for female artists who work in the fields of electronic music and digital arts, she founded in 1998 and […]