Bloodless Coop
...by racially stereotyped stock footage of dark-skinned men spearing a wild animal) felt a deep libidinal, biological, and seemingly pre-discursive affinity for flesh, a trait contemporary humans also share: “We...
Hollow Inside
...culture. Instead, we may only have to wait until our fellow humans have converted themselves into purely impersonal automatons capable of total objectivity in all their tasks. At that point,...
Beyond the Internet and All Control Diagrams
...struggles for opacity must confront both humans and machines. I explored what informatic opacity might look like in an earlier artwork titled Facial Weaponization Suite, in which I produced masks...
Bees Are Dying
...world without honeybees, and ultimately argued that “humans would probably not go extinct (at least not solely for that reason).” Truly, “humans would probably not go extinct” is the ¯\_(?)_/¯...
Turn Down for What?
...same in work,” “plugging us in here, being plugged in there.” It’s a vision of work not unlike The Matrix, with humans as batteries for machine-capital, living orifices for plugs....
St. Cthulu in the Anthroposcene
...upon, and often procreating with humans in gross acts of miscegenation. Even Lovecraft’s most loyal contemporary critic S. T. Joshi admits that Lovecraft’s work is preoccupied with “the decline of...
#mybodymyhome (iii)
...Ark (1984), a world that starts with the immortal Doro and Anyanwu and concludes with an ongoing, genocidal battle between their descendants—the telepathic patternists—and humans modified by an alien microbe—the...
Terrifying Robot Update: Friday, September 5, 2014
...so clean, so clean...so nice and clean... • • • Initially, the researchers hypothesized the humans would struggle with relinquishing control to let a machine become leader. What they found,...
New Transcendentalist
...writer, and the role of the critic in helping us to remember, to not forget, our potential as humans — to enlarge our vistas, to create space and freedom in...
Playing With Death
...to what Foucault calls biopower - the tactics used by governments to monitor and manage populations. In the process, you start to appreciate that while we humans tend to use...
On Modeling as Modern-Day Physiognomy
...American Indian features were compared more to those of animals than of humans; Asian characteristics indicated compliance and asexuality. So physiognomy is dead, as well it should be. Except, well,...
Serf Boards
...services Peter Cohen as a way to solve problems with Amazon’s ever-expanding data set. The premise was that a distributed crowd of humans could easily complete tasks that computers found...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.24.13
...do with that public capacity? Of course I feel for Oklahomans; isn't that how humans work? We feel empathy for one another? I just feel like making some statement about...
Alcoholism, Pregnancy, and the Language of Denigration
...beings, like humans, was recapitulated in the development of a human fetus. Haeckel's embryology reinforced the public dialogue surrounding the role of the mother and her actions in the physiological...
The Sigil Begins
...It is a tent of meeting, a humans-only zone, an occupation. And if it's successful, this little squat will provide safe haven for thought and new opportunities for connection. That's...
This Is Going to Hurt
Serious challenges to the status quo will be met with panic and repression