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Re-Evaluating Solar Photovoltaic Power

May 3, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Superior Forms of Corruption: Xenofeminism ways of building a world from srcaps

January 30, 2021by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Bratton, Hester, Ireland

seduction of a cyborg

December 14, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Lynn Hershman Leeson, 1994.

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Complicity at the Edge of Extinction

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“Techno-optimism is much worse than techno-pessimism”

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Artificial Intelligence – Limitless Potential vs Liminal Transcendence

November 9, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

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, […]

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Organizing for Promethean Socialism?

December 30, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Beer, Marx

Brief History of An Algorithm

November 6, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Chun

The Delusion of Technological Transcendence

October 28, 2019by dmf 7 Comments

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 […]

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Patchwork as Real World Vectors

March 26, 2019by ||| 4 Comments

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. […]

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Engineering and Application of Microbial Symbioses

October 22, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

[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 […]

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Oxman

Design at the Intersection of Technology and Biology

October 22, 2018by ||| 3 Comments

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 […]

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Oxman

Accelerationism in a nutshell?

October 20, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

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, beats […]

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Zack Walsh on Contemplative Praxis

October 11, 2018by Arran Crawford Leave a comment

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 […]

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Walsh

Deeply Adaptive Patchworking vs. Fully Automated Fantasy

September 29, 2018by Arran Crawford 9 Comments

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 […]

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Crawford

Ecological Realism as Ontographic Sincerity

September 6, 2018by ||| 19 Comments

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 […]

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Heidegger, Kolozova, Laruelle, Marx

Technology as Fetish: Marx, Latour, and the Cultural Foundations of Capitalism

July 18, 2018by ||| 22 Comments

“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 […]

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Hornborg, Marx

U/Acc in Michael Cisco’s Animal Money | Jeremy Trombley

June 28, 2018by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Babette Babich | Life is a Test: On Ivan Illich

August 12, 2017by dmf 2 Comments

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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Babich, Illich

The Magical Universe: Gilbert Simondon and Technicity

June 26, 2017by ||| 2 Comments

Hickman with another brilliant set of codes to disrupt the current matrix: “This distancing of world, subject, and object would form the basis of our current secular culture and civilization […]

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Mumford, Simondon, Stiegler

Quick & Dirty Intro to Accelerationism

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