by Jason Hickel “Scaling down less-necessary forms of production is powerful because it enables us to accelerate socially and ecologically necessary forms of production (and innovation!) faster than what can […]
Shane Smith sits down with Sam Harris, philosopher, neuroscientist, and bestselling author for a deep conversation about artificial intelligence, consciousness, and the fragile future of humanity. They begin with Sam’s […]
Re-Evaluating Solar Photovoltaic Power: Considering the ecological impacts we aim to reduce by Katie Singer Even when reality is harsh, I prefer it. I’d rather engineers say that my water could […]
From: Lesia Prokopenko Revising the split between the natural and the artificial, xenofeminism offers ways of constructing a viable future from former spaces of violence and inhibition. The Xenofeminist Manifesto is […]
Lynn Hershman Leeson, 1994.
“Techno-optimism is much worse than techno-pessimism”
January 2020 – Berlin The rapid development of so-called “artificial intelligence” presents both society and culture with increasing challenges on various fronts. When it comes to implementations in the arts, […]
In her post “Organizing for Power: Stealing Fire From the Gods“, Amelia Davenport argued for leftist organizers to reclaim the ideas of Taylor’s Scientific Management, making a broader argument for […]
The so-called “hard-forking” of reality (now a euphemism for a human’s cyber-massaged biases and pet projects) is one of the greatest tricks played on us by Capitalism (TM), and facilitated […]
Confronting rather than ignoring a good argument is not only a more honest approach but can also be quite rewarding. This interview with Prof. Richard Jones is full of good […]
Patchwork as Real World Vectors by Chris Shaw [original source: The Libertarian Ideal] I define patchwork as the adaptation and fragmentation of institutional structures through the processes of exit and voice. […]
[re: Ecologistics] Below are excerpts from a fascinating paper published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology, and authored by Stephanie G Hays, William G Patrick, Marika Ziesack1, Neri Oxman and Pamela A […]
As civilized-time continues to compress via a warming world [a 12 year window according to recent U.N climate reporting] and the shape of our long collapse shifts, more and more […]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-B7-Vcdlld8%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autohide%3D2%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent If you had to sum up the essence of Accelerationism in a nutshell, you could do worst than recommend somebody watch this: Sometimes, 5 minutes of audio visual composition, […]
I’m a big fan of The Imperfect Buddha podcast and this particular conversation hits all the right notes for me. In the course of their entirely engaging conversation – taking in […]
Interest in patchwork is moving out beyond its capture in the Landian gravity-well and as it does attention is moving from the system to the object level. The people I’m […]
Below are some thoughts I had while reflecting on a new paper from Katrina Kolozova available here. This passage in particular set off an avalanche of pondering: In order to circumvent the […]
“The concept of time-space appropriation thus offers a way to define and even quantify asymmetric global flows of resources that are fundamental to the accumulation of physical capital.” ~ Alf […]
U/Acc in Michael Cisco’s Animal Money by Jeremy Trombley [[ originally posted at Struggle Forever! Feb 24, 2018 ]] Acceleration, in physics, is the rate of change in velocity with […]
Below American philosopher Babette Babich talks about Ivan Illich’s political philosophy of being human. Babich is known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for […]
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