Artificial Advancements
Technological innovation is not an inherent good for disabled people, especially when the focus is on cure over care
Robots on an Escalator
...and let an algorithm provide an distilled, essential version of the self. The Globe article offers this interpretation of Kazemi's work: "By imitating humans in ways both poignant and disorienting,...
Sunday Reading
...Patagonia Humans of Tbilisi Straight Allies, White Anti-Racists, Male Feminists (and Other Labels That Mean Nothing to Me) ReclaimUC: War, palaces, huts, peace. "UC Berkeley has had a long and...
Sunday Reading
...a cool way to share a cool joke or a story” “All of the clocks in lower Manhattan were stopped at 8:37” “It’s through such combination of humans and bots...
New Masses
...with real humans overseas. But the smart homes of the future aim to extract more value from the other end of the market. Ava Kofman investigates the Internet of Things-enabled...
it's not surprising that we get bitter, that we cling to gun control
...themselves shooting—or the owner of an assault rifle—chances are good that they’ve found a way to think of that human being as less human than other humans beings. Killing white...
Private Life Drama
...resurrect the dead and even to colonize space to make room for all those who had ever lived. This doesn’t mean divine resurrection: humans themselves must harness technology to overcome...
Miéville's Anticlimaxes
...— it remains an incredibly powerful and dangerous magic to the humans who stole it — but it is contextualized. By foregrounding the material interests (land) of the novel's most...
The New Inquiry Vol. 52: New Masses
...make automating service work like this cheaper to conduct with real humans overseas. But the smart homes of the future aim to extract more value from the other end of...
The Mask of Zelda: Dark Eternities
It was just an ordinary day in the world of Legend of Zelda. Then everything went topsy-turvy. Content Warning: Violence of every kind.
The Science of Making CS Gas “Safe”
The idea that tear gas is "safe" was produced through violent experimentation on working-class colonial subjects
They Were Like Us & We Were Like Them
...the world, unless it is that humans are capable of extreme and meaningless violence, whether in desperate Kotelnich or in bourgeois Paris, where Carrère commits a subtle kind of psychological...
Hot Allostatic Load
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build inside the storms.
Parasite
...not interested in games by game designers. I’m interested in games by humans who take their own shit and make it into a game. Maybe you could make your own...
Sunday Reading
...Brothers on ethical consumption Should humans really go to Mars? Cheat Sheet for a Non- (or Less-) Colonialist Speculative Design India's Scientific Playgrounds: Mapping the Jantar Mantar Observatories The Turn...
MoW Memorandum
...transforming ownership structures, public participation, and risk management into a relational understanding of humans and ecology. The Museum’s final reflection area devoted to sovereignty revises the celebratory rhetoric surrounding waste...